Jackie Gleason

Why Are You Laughing?

Blind Mike Project

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

5 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On today's show the guys look in to the life and career of Jackie Gleason and see what impact/influence he still has today.

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Recorded at Vaulted Podcasts in Pawtucket RI.

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0:00.0	I don't really know how to start shows.
0:02.1	Come on now.
0:03.8	Don't start liking me now.
0:05.7	So yeah, I'm funny compared to you.
0:08.7	Well, you'll see later.
0:09.9	I favorite me.
0:10.9	I know a lot of fucking idiots.
0:12.6	I think a lot of shit is mean-spirited.
0:14.2	Just because it goes against what they believe.
0:16.2	But the relief of comedy is it take things that aren't funny,
0:19.6	and it allows us to laugh about them for an
0:21.5	hour. We got a purple suit to buy in a gigantic coffin. Why are you laughing? Evening, everybody. Welcome to
0:26.8	another edition of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast recorded here at the vaulted
0:30.8	podcast studios in Petucca, Rhode Island. And today I'm pleased to introduce you to Jackie Gleason,
0:36.2	one of the all-time greats in television
0:39.2	history and a guy that I didn't know.
0:42.3	Another one of these, like Lenny Bruce, Three Stooges, when we do these older episodes,
0:46.1	I don't know if they're the most popular episodes, but I like them the most because I learn a lot.
0:51.3	Like when we do, you know, Patrice or O&A or norm or whatever, I like it because I'm having
0:57.1	fun talking about guys I loved.
0:58.8	Like, I knew all that shit already.
1:00.1	Like, I didn't know anything really about Jackie Gleason before I started looking
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