How To Be Funny (5th Anniversary Edition)
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
How do you learn to tell the perfect joke? In this special edition of How To!, founding host Charles Duhigg joins Courtney and Carvell to mark five years of life-changing advice with a look back at our very first episode. It features a pastor from Oklahoma who wants to spice up his sermons. We introduce him to Gary Gulman, a New York standup comedian who makes jokes about his clinical depression. They workshop the pastor's new joke about the New Testament, and Gary reveals "what might be the most important rule of being funny."
Charles Duhigg's favorite episode: How To Stop Being Anxious
Courtney Martin's favorite episode: How To Be Lonely
Carvell Wallace's favorite episode: How To Grieve an Estranged Parent
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How To's executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis and Sara McCrae.
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| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. |
| 0:21.8 | Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on April 17th, |
| 0:26.1 | with a first guest you won't want to miss. |
| 0:27.8 | Available wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to How To. |
| 0:44.1 | Hey listeners, we have a very special treat for you today. |
| 0:48.7 | This is, believe it or not, the five-year anniversary of How To unslate. |
| 0:53.5 | Can you guys believe that? Does that seem like a |
| 0:56.0 | realistic? That's amazing. That's amazing. So because of that, we have a very special treat. We have a |
| 1:01.1 | collection of an assembly of how-to hosts that have never been in the room together. It is me, |
| 1:07.9 | Carvel Wallace. It is Courtney Martin, whom you know, and it is our show's founder, founding father, Charles |
| 1:13.4 | Duhigg, all together to talk about what the last five years has been like and maybe even |
| 1:18.5 | think a little bit about what the next five years might be. |
| 1:21.1 | So thanks for joining us. |
| 1:22.7 | And thanks guys for coming together here. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, this is so much fun. This is exciting. |
| 1:29.3 | So I guess the first question that Courtney and I have, |
| 1:32.1 | because we came to the show when it was already going, |
| 1:34.4 | is Charles, can you give us a little bit of the origin story |
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