George Wallace's Stupid Stuff

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Jesse David Fox sits down with the legendary George Wallace. A stand-up since the 70s, Wallace is once one of the country’s most in-demand comedians, and has recently found a new fan base via Twitter. This week’s clip is a supercut of a type of joke George tells a lot, jokes under the theme of the catchphrase, “stupid stuff.” The clips are from shows spanning decades, including his 2016 Montreal Just for Laughs Festival appearance, a set from his historic 10 year run at the Flamingo in Las Vegas, and his 1991 HBO One Night Stand Special. You can find George Wallace on Twitter and Instagram, too. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Good One is made possible by the team at New York Magazine. Subscribe today to support their work at nymag.com/goodone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.4	Folger Senior Editor, Jesse David Fox. Each episode a guest comes on to play a clip of one of
1:14.9	their jokes and then discusses how they wrote it and how it fits into what they're
1:18.5	trying to do with their comedy. This week's guest is the God dang legend
1:22.4	George Wallace.
1:23.7	George Wallace, who was born Henry Wallace, but changed his name for sag reasons,
1:28.4	started in comedy the same day, literally the same day in the late 1970s as his future best friend Jerry Seinfeld.
1:36.4	You know, like Jerry, George just has a joke, writer's mind, they sort of go through the world like a Terminator and everything they see just
1:45.7	sort of gets filtered through as a joke.
1:47.6	It must be very frustrating as a way of living, but it is the reason why they're able to be so prolific.
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