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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Jo Firestone’s Seniors Comedy Class

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

On this week's brand new episode of Good One, host Jesse David Fox sits down with comedian and TV writer Jo Firestone! Jo is a comedian whose work can be seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Joe Pera Talks With You, High Maintenance, Shrill, and more. She can be heard on Maximum Fun’s Dr. Gameshow, a podcast she co-hosts with Manolo Moreno and Comedy Central’s “Everyday Decisions,” a podcast she hosts all alone. Her album, "The Hits" is available on Comedy Central Records, and she co-hosts the weekly comedy show Butterboy at Littlefield in Brooklyn every Monday night. Today, she's speaking to Jesse about her newest special, Good Timing With Jo Firestone; part documentary, the special follows Jo's weekly class at the Greenwich House Senior Center where she teaches comedy to a group of seniors who prove to be more provocative, political and unfiltered on-stage than off. Watch Good Timing on Peacock starting October 15. Find Jo’s podcasts Dr. Gameshow and Everyday Decisions wherever podcasts are found. Follow Jo on instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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like I remember one time I did this show with with Joe Perra and it was called

0:06.7

the celebrity something experience and we rented a limo and so we each

0:13.0

to half an hour and during the half an hour the other person would take out

0:16.6

groups of seven from Union Hall and take them on a limo ride around the

0:20.3

neighborhood and so like we did it until everybody had got just going to limo

0:26.2

and then I was doing my half hour and then Joe takes out the last group of seven

0:33.2

and then he he took them to McDonald's and then he left them there and he

0:44.0

paid the limo driver was told to leave them there and the McDonald's it was

0:49.6

on the Vanderbilt it's not that close these people were angry and they they

0:56.0

paid for a show and then they got dropped off miles away from their friends

1:00.6

and like that they walked back people had walked back to Union Hall and they

1:05.8

were like what the hell was wrong with you

1:10.6

hello and welcome to Good One a podcast about Joe I'm your host

1:22.7

Jessica Fox each episode of guest comes on to play a clip of one of their

1:26.4

jokes and then discusses how and more importantly why they wrote it you know I

1:30.8

say that at the top of like every episode but more often than not that is not

1:34.1

exactly the case comedians these days don't fit so neatly into that box which

1:39.5

brings me to this week's episode with my friend Joe Firestone I've known and

1:43.5

love Joe's comedy for a while now but in the past she hadn't wanted a peer on

1:48.2

this podcast she didn't want to have to talk about her standup which she has a

1:53.3

let's say fraught relationship with but thankfully she has a new comedy

1:57.8

special that she is comfortable talking about it's called good timing and it is

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