Jack Antonoff: Jokes Are The Melodies Of Comedy

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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(Recorded May 2021) Mike welcomes Jack Antonoff who, in addition to writing the music for this podcast, is a Grammy Award-winning musician and frontman for the band Bleachers. He has collaborated and co-written songs with Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen, and today he collaborates with Mike on jokes about death and mortality as the two old friends dive deep into the afterlife crisis, what defines “a herb,” and what it means for an artist to “dare to suck.” This episode is packed with jokes, heavy on craft and sprinkled with love.

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0:00.0	When I first was touring, I spent a lot of time in your home state of New Jersey
0:04.6	because there's tons of comedy clubs in there.
0:08.6	There used to be even more.
0:09.7	We love to laugh, Mike.
0:10.8	Ha ha ha ha.
0:12.8	That is the voice of the great Jack Antenov.
0:21.6	Jack Antenov is a brilliant, brilliant musician.
0:26.7	Six-time Grammy Award-winning musician, including just recently, since we aired this the first
0:34.6	time, he was the 2022 Grammy Award-winning for producer of the year.
0:41.7	He has produced his own albums for his band Bleachers, which is on tour right now.
0:48.0	He has produced albums with Taylor Swift, Lord St. Vincent, Florence in the Machine, Lana
0:54.4	Del Rey.
0:55.4	I mean, on and on and on and on.
0:58.3	He and I have been friends for a long time, met a Boneroo Festival years ago.
1:05.2	We've just been friends ever since.
1:07.9	We go to a diner in our neighborhood, often for lunch, and in some ways this conversation
1:13.1	today is like those conversations at the diner.
1:15.9	We actually kick around a ton of jokes in this episode.
1:18.7	I love his feedback on the jokes.
1:26.5	He's got a great sense of humor.
1:30.8	We're both, you know, the thing that we have in common, we've always had in common, we're
1:34.6	both touring artists.
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