This is a HeadGum podcast.

Good one is sponsored by Spotify. Hey, welcome to the third season of Good One, a podcast about jokes. I am your

host, Volchre Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. In case this is your first episode, I'll explain a little bit about what's going to happen.

Each episode a comedian, comedy writer, or director, picks a joke, a bit, a sketch, or a scene from their career to play and discuss how and why it came together.

To kick off the third season, we have Kid Gorges himself, Mr. John Malaney.

John has been a dream guest for me ever since I started the podcast he is one of the best and most versatile

joke writers of this generation both on S&L and shows he's written for as well as his stand-up.

With his third hour special Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, premering on Netflix, we sat down to discuss the one joke

early in his career that changed everything for him.

As he'll explain, working on this joke

from his debut album, the top part,

taught him how to write jokes in a style that he still does to this day.

Later in the interview, we discuss Oh Hello on Broadway, the show he did with Nick Kroll, and how it

result in a second major breakthrough for his stand-up.

By the end of the interview, you'll get a sense of how result in a second major breakthrough for a stand-up.

By the end of the interview, you'll get a sense of how John Mulaney went from Promising Comedy

Wunderkin to the grizzled joke machine he is today.

So here's a young John Mulaney joking about $100 million,

followed by an older John Mulaney

talking about writing that joke when he was young.

I love movies though.

I'm kind of, it's funny to me over the summer

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