This is a headgum podcast. Hello, I'm Jesse David Fox, and welcome to Good One. The podcast in which a comedian

writer or director comes on to play and then talk about one of their jokes.

So I'm sometimes asked about how I came up with the idea for this podcast.

So with this, the first episode of our mini season where I'm going to pick certain breakthrough

episodes from our archives, I'll tell what is kind of our origin story.

Or at least in the interview you're about to hear, you'll sort of see the initial spark.

So in 2015 I was giving the opportunity to interview Jerry Seinfeld

at Folter Festival.

I know this podcast features me talking to famous people pretty often,

but this was no small deal.

I'm pretty sure I don't need to explain why.

The Peg was a new season of comedians and cars getting coffee but I was told we can talk about anything

and all I want to talk about was jokes. It was Jerry Seinfeld. Besides writing some of the best jokes,

there few people care more about the writing of them. That said I was also

aware that Jerry was of a generation not exactly accustomed to breaking down their jokes, dead frog and so on and so on,

so I knew I couldn't linger too much.

But I can't exactly explain the thrill I experience in those moments during the interview

where we got into it.

I mean it's like talking to Saisana about painting fruit or Paul Bakuz about making soup

or talking to Vince Carter about freaking dunking basketball. Afterward he said,

you know you're really interested in jokes,

which I always interpret it mean

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