Gary Gulman's Trader Joe's

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this rerun, host Jesse David Fox sits down with Gary Gulman to talk about a joke from his 2016 special It’s About Time. The joke is about an experience Gary had at Trader Joe’s, but it’s way, waaaaaaaay bigger than that. Gary takes his audience through TJ’s snack selection and into Narnia, making companions of old women on the Upper West Side, finally culminating in a rumination on the nature of New Yorkers and taking a stand when injustice rears its ugly head. Jesse and Gary dissect this joke from start to finish, picking apart word choice down to the syllable. Gary reflects on the inciting incident, as well as how his mental illness plays a part in the whole thing. You can watch The Great Depresh Tour on HBO Max. For all of Gary’s tips, follow Gary on Twitter. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	Visit eBay.com for terms. Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes. I'm your host Jesse David Fox.
0:56.0	Each episode a guest comes on to play a clip of one of their jokes and then discusses how they wrote it
1:01.0	and how it fits into what they're trying to do with
1:02.9	their comedy. This week is going to feel long, really, really long, so I thought we'd
1:10.2	rerun the episode about the longest joke we've ever had on the show, our March 2019 interview with Gary Goldman.
1:17.0	The joke is so good and Gary is so engrossing talking about it and importantly it's 24 minutes long.
1:26.0	Stretching out over six tracks off his 2016 album It's About Time.
1:31.0	It is in my opinion Gary's Magnum Opus, as I am a person who calls people's jokes Magnum Opus's, Opusi.
1:40.1	And what it is is a testament to Gary as like a great joke writing craftsman.
1:49.1	There's just sort of so many different types of jokes in it. There's storytelling, there's
1:54.4	word play, and put it all together, it really conveys why Gary is a joke writer's
2:01.7	joke writer. He really puts a lot of care and thought
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