Hello, this is Jesse David Fox. I'm a senior editor at Vulture and I host the

podcast, good one, a podcast about jokes. It's a podcast about, well, jokes.

Stephen Sonheim, this guy's so good at songs they should call him Stephen's song guy.

That's one John Malini decided not to tell on stage.

I wonder why. The show is not about jokes like that though.

It's about the jokes the greatest comedians in the world tell on stage and in specials and

beloved movies and TV shows or in a late night sketch.

Every week on Good One, I sit down with a comedian,

comedy writer, or director.

We listen to one of their jokes and figure out

how it all came together.

So this is like the premise, and then I will go on stage and try to

to improvise a punchline and then other times I'll have punchlines

and then I'll try to improvise a premise.

It's honestly really hard on the way I work.

Turns out, comedians take jokes pretty seriously.

I like all jokes, okay?

That's what I do, that's what I live for.

There's really nothing else I care about.

Yeah.

Along the way, we talk about their writing process.

The best way to shape and mold a joke is through conversation on stage.

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