Gary Gulman’s Ice Cream Joke Was A Cry For Help

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Gary Gulman did so many food bits early in his stand-up career that he joked he was "a strictly food-based comic." But as his comedy started to evolve in new directions, the role of food in his act changed, too. Instead of observational humor, Gary now uses food in a more personal way — from talking about ice cream as a window into his clinical depression, to skewering income inequality through a discussion of Pop-Tarts.

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0:00.0	Well, let me back up for a second, Gary. This is a food podcast.
0:04.7	No, I know.
0:05.4	Okay.
0:06.4	Okay, good.
0:07.4	Yeah.
0:08.4	I also have a theory on the word spork that I want to put a bookmark in.
0:12.4	So, let's do it.
0:14.0	You want to do that right now?
0:15.0	Yeah, because I don't want to forget.
0:15.9	Okay.
0:16.5	The first time I heard somebody refer to the cafeteria spoon fork
0:20.8	as a spork, I thought, wow is I didn't know I didn't know the word
0:25.2	portmanteau yeah right because it there weren't that many portmanteos.
0:29.6	So I found that very clever I was was like, oh, a spoon and fork.
0:34.4	And I remember there was something that bugged me about it,
0:37.4	and I wasn't able to articulate it.
0:39.2	And then I realized that last summer I said,
0:42.0	oh, the reason I never cared for that portmanteau was because it was an inaccurate
0:49.0	depiction of the forks contribution to that utensil.
0:53.4	Okay.
0:54.5	And so the fork is not doing half the work.
0:58.6	It's not half the utensil.
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