4.4 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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0:00.0 | You made it weird. You made it weird. What's happening weird? This is Jesse Fox. Fox said that like FM radio Jesse David Fox who is an incredible author |
0:23.8 | he just wrote well it came out a little while ago but I just read it and it's incredible it's called |
0:28.4 | comedy book and it's about the history the evolution and the impact of comedy obviously we talk |
0:33.8 | a lot about comedy in this episode every single time I've sat down with Jesse, it's been a delight, and this is no exception. |
0:40.8 | He's also the host of the hit podcast, Good One, where he interviews comedians about their process, |
0:46.0 | and he is one of the senior editors at Vulture, where he works as the comedy critic, and he's awesome. |
0:52.9 | I love talking with him, and this episode is one of those times. I love talking with him and this episode is one of those |
0:56.4 | times that I love talking with him. Hey, different Pete jumping in here to talk about the tour. We have |
1:02.2 | changed the name of the tour. It was the PG-13 tour. We are now calling the tour the Pete |
1:07.9 | here now tour because I did one show under the banner, PG-13 in Austin. |
1:14.1 | It was an awesome show. |
1:15.6 | I loved it. |
1:16.4 | But I got off stage and I was like, that wasn't, yeah, I'm not, I'm not really PG-13. |
1:22.6 | I can't be standing in front of an audience and not just use everything I got, every trick, every word, |
1:29.9 | every face, every anything I can to delight you and make you laugh as hard as possible. And what |
1:36.7 | happened is I wrote a bunch of jokes that were, you know, edging me out of the PG-13 category, |
1:43.0 | but they were my favorite jokes. And I was like, |
1:45.6 | I can't. I'm not going to cut these jokes to stay in these boundaries that I made up, |
1:52.0 | sort of almost as a lark, because a lot of the material was cleaner. And now some of it isn't. |
1:58.5 | And then I was like, well, I'll call it the soft R tour. And I was like, |
2:01.8 | why am I even asking people to look at this show through that lens? Like, where is it on the |
2:07.7 | spectrum of movie ratings? I don't like it. I don't, I'm putting it away. I'm saying that's egg |
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