How a Comedian Chooses Just the Right Words

The Gist

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🗓️ 30 May 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today on the show, Adam Davidson from NPR's Planet Money discusses why income inequality matters to most Americans. Then comedian Gary Gulman drops in to discuss how even the smallest word choice matters when crafting jokes. And as New York considers reversing its ferret ban, Mike's spiel recalls the greatest moment of Ferret-related media. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slates-the-gist/id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.4	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:28.8	It's Friday, May 30, 2014.
0:31.2	From Slate, It's the GIST, I'm Mike Pasca.
0:34.0	The website, 538, had an article on the most edited Wikipedia entries.
0:38.6	What the author, Mona Chalibide, was to strip out the articles that related to Wikipedia
0:43.1	administration itself.
0:45.2	And so she just found the articles about actual things or people.
0:48.0	Number one topic.
0:49.0	It was the most revised George W. Bush at 45,000 revisions.
0:54.8	The list of WWE, those are the wrestlers, personnel, 38,000 revisions, down the list of
1:01.3	the most revised articles.
1:02.8	The United States, Michael Jackson, Jesus, and then eight to Barack Obama with 23,000
1:09.8	edits and then eight off Hitler with 23, but eight off Hitler is 15 fewer edits or revisions
1:15.5	than Barack Obama.
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