How To Be Funny
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How do you learn to tell the perfect joke? In this episode of How To! a pastor from Oklahoma wants to spice up his sermons. So we introduce him to Gary Gulman, a New York standup comedian who makes jokes about his clinical depression. The lesson? "Man plans, and God laughs." But only if you nail the delivery.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners. This week we're replaying one of our earliest in one of my favorite episodes. |
| 0:05.0 | It's with Gary Goldman who has a brand new comedy special on HBO. |
| 0:09.0 | We'll be back next week with something completely new. |
| 0:12.0 | I kill. We'll be back next week with something completely new. |
| 0:13.4 | I killed at my father's funeral. |
| 0:17.5 | Really? |
| 0:18.5 | And then the rabbi went on after me and tried to do to do some time and I said rabbi you never want to follow |
| 0:26.7 | the headline and that got another laugh I mean I I destroyed at my father's |
| 0:32.4 | funeral I mean I destroyed at my father's funeral. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to How To. I'm Charles Doohick. |
| 0:39.9 | Each week on this show, we talk to listeners like you, |
| 0:43.6 | who are trying to figure out how to solve one of life's problems. |
| 0:46.7 | Like how to withstand pain, or how to fire a bad employee, |
| 0:51.4 | or how to find your soulmate. |
| 0:54.0 | Then we track down an expert and we get their advice |
| 0:56.6 | and we see if it helps. |
| 0:58.8 | On today's episode, we're tackling a question |
| 1:01.0 | that all of us at some point try to answer, how to be funny. |
| 1:06.1 | We got interested in this after hearing from this guy in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, |
| 1:10.0 | named Aaron Kirkpatrick. I'm a 35 year old pastor at a Church of Christ in Oklahoma. |
| 1:18.0 | You know, I get up in front of about 250 people every week to preach and humor is I think a central |
| 1:26.1 | part of that or at least I want it to be. |
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