Episode 556: Jesse David Fox

Longform

Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Jesse David Fox covers comedy for Vulture, where he hosts the podcast Good One. His new book is Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture—and the Magic That Makes It Work. “There’s a complete lack of anyone who’s ever written about comedy seriously compared to any other art form. There’s just nothing. … So the challenge was, how do you start a conversation that no one has been participating in?” Show notes: @JesseDavidFox Fox’s Vulture archive 3:00 Jason Zinoman’s New York Times archive 5:00 “What Is the Best Adam Sandler Movie?” (Vulture • April 2023) 6:00 Kathryn VanArendonk’s Vulture archive 8:00 “A Note About Splitsider” (Megh Wright• Vulture • Mar 2018) 11:00 “Jerry Seinfeld at Vulture Festival 2015” (Vulture • June 2015) 12:00 WTF with Marc Maron Podcast (Marc Maron • WTF • 2009) 14:00 “Jen Kirkman Turned Catcalling Into One of the Best Street Harassment Jokes Ever” (Vulture • April 2017) 23:00 “An Appreciation of the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” (Ramsey Ess • Vulture • Mar 2018) 23:00 “Maria Bamford Wants to Tell You How Much Money She Makes” (Vulture • Oct 2017) 23:00 “How Funny Does Comedy Need to Be?” (Vulture • Sep 2018) 23:00 “Michelle Wolf on Correspondents Dinner, Social Media” (Vulture • Mar 2020) 23:00 “Disgust is Tom Segura’s Love Language” (Vulture • Sept 2022) 23:00 “The Story Behind Bert Kreischer’s ‘Machine’ Joke” (Vulture • May 2023) 23:00 “Katt Williams Explains Jacksonville Florida” (Katt Williams • Netflix • Jan 2020) 36:00 “How the Internet and a New Generation of Superfans Helped Create the Second Comedy Boom” (Vulture • Mar 2015) 37:00 Las Culturistas (Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang • iHeartRadio • 2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.7	Hello and welcome to the Longform Podcast. I'm Aaron Lammer. I'm here with Max Linsky and
1:27.7	Evan Ratliffe, my co-hosts. Hello, hello, hello. Hey guys. Goddammit, it's great to see you guys.
1:33.8	Aaron, who is on the show this week?
1:36.7	Nearly 45 seconds ago, I said goodbye to this person. Now I'm introducing their episode.
1:42.1	They are Jesse David Foxx. I has a new book out, comedy book, how comedy, conquered culture,
1:48.0	and the magic that makes it work. If you've read Vulture over the years, you have encountered Jesse's
1:54.1	coverage of comedy. Comedy in a broad sense, like everything from stand up to SNL, to these kind
2:02.6	of Netflix, one-person show, amorphous forums, and that's kind of what the book is about, honestly.
2:09.4	It's about how comedy exploded out from its 1980s comedy club boom roots into all the places and
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