Max Silvestri Tells Leah Beckmann's Upstate Cabin Story

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Max Silvestri and writer Leah Beckmann have been together for seven years. They have a dog. For years Max hosted the New York alt-comedy showcase Big Terrific, which Leah had been to a couple of times before approaching Max on the subway to say hi. Fast forward to today, when Jesse sits down with the couple to discuss what it’s like to be written about as a significant other, the vetting process for relationship jokes, and why buttholes work when assholes don’t. Watch Max on Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup and see his work on Big Mouth. Read and watch Leah’s work on The Cut, Gawker, and Cartoon Network’s Summer Camp Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast. Oh, hey, I am Volcher Senior Editor Jesse David Fox, and welcome to Good One, a
0:18.4	podcast in which a comedian, writer, director, and what have you comes on to play and discuss one of their jokes.
0:24.0	Now for something different. Well we still have a comedian and a joke but that's not it.
0:30.0	Maxa Vestry has a joke in his episode of Netflix's comedy lineup that I knew I want to do an episode about ever since I saw him do it live for the first time.
0:38.0	It's a hilarious, lovingly told story about a trip his long-term partner writer Leah Beckman took with her friends.
0:45.0	I've always been curious how couples, in which one member is a comedian,
0:49.0	navigates what of the other person's life is okay to talk about on stage?
0:53.4	Added to the mix here, before Leah started writing for television, she was a journalist who, as we talked
0:58.7	about in this episode, would write about Max.
1:01.6	So we get into it. Honestly it's all very sweet funny charming.
1:06.0	Speaking of which, first here's Max telling the story on stage and then Leah and Max
1:11.1	telling the story behind the story.
1:15.0	I think the truth is I just wish I could only hang with women.
1:18.5	Like I'm so jealous of my girlfriend's lady friends.
1:21.3	Like they have the most incredible relationship. They talk
1:23.7	about everything they're so open. I feel like female friendships are like homeschool
1:27.5	kids. No boundaries. You know I want that. To tell a story that is totally true to explain this.
1:34.3	My girlfriend went away for a long weekend
1:36.6	with three lady friends she's known since college.
1:38.8	And they got a cabin in the woods out in the middle of nowhere.
1:41.6	And she came back and she was like, oh,
1:43.7	that weekend was unbelievable.
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