Moshe Kasher's Crowd Work

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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On this week’s episode, we welcome back Moshe Kasher, a comedian who’s best known as an early podcast pioneer (R.I.P. the Champs, long live Houndtall and The Endless Honeymoon) and one-half of the standup power couple with wife Natasha Leggero, who he starred alongside in Netflix’s Honeymoon Stand Up Special. This time he’s discussing the much maligned art of crowd work, where the comedian talks to audience members in search of laughs or a funny story. Moshe has become a modern master, able to turn the form that is often lazy and hacky into something ambitious and damn near spiritual. He compares crowd work to walking out on a tightrope and hoping that the rope goes all the way to the other side. The joke we discuss is a sex story from a Washington, D.C. woman that twists and turns, forcing Moshe to ride it like a wave. It’s off his appropriately titled album Crowd Surfing Vol. 1, which he released last year. Listen to the album wherever you listen to music. Follow Moshe on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:35.8	Fulcher Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. Each episode I have a comedic amount to
1:40.3	play a clip of one of their bits and then discuss how they wrote it and
1:43.4	how it fits into what they're trying to do with their comedy. This week we
1:46.6	welcome Mosha Kasher back to the show. Mosha is a stand-up comedian
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