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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Nick Kroll’s Big Mouth Shame-Filled Dirty Talk

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the Season 4 premiere of Good One, Nick Kroll discusses the difference between shame and guilt and how both concepts factor into writing a show like Big Mouth, which returned October 5th for its second season on Netflix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a HeadGum Podcast.

0:05.0

Vulture's Good One Podcast is sponsored by ABC's The Alec Baldwin Show,

0:08.0

premiering Sunday October 14th at 10-9 Central.

0:11.0

No monologue, no band, just Baldwin and good-old-fashioned

0:13.8

conversation with interesting people. Don't miss Sundays after Sharp Tank. Hello and welcome to Good One season four. The podcast in which a comedian,

0:30.9

writer, director, etc. plays and discusses one of their jokes. I'm your host

0:35.0

your host, I'm your host, Ultra Senior Editor Jesse David Fox.

0:38.0

Our guest for this episode is Nick Kroll, comedian, actor,

0:41.0

co-creator of Kroll Show, Ohol, and Broadway, and most recently the animated Big Mouth,

0:46.0

whose fantastic second season premiered on Netflix this past weekend. Big Mouth is a no-punch-pulled look at puberty,

0:52.0

told them the only way that can do the fraught time period justice, with hormone monsters and anthropomorphize pubic hair.

0:58.0

The show is set today, but is based on Nick's own middle school growing up with Big Mouth, co-creator and comedy writer Andrew Goldberg,

1:05.3

in which Nick was an extremely late bloomer and Andrew an extremely early one.

1:09.7

The character of Andrew, which you'll hear in the scene Nick Picked, is voiced by John Mulaney,

1:15.0

Nick's longtime collaborator, and Past Good One Guest.

1:18.0

Nick voices Nick, as well as a bunch of other characters on the show, including Andrew's hormone monster Maurice and Lola the early

1:24.7

blooming popular girl Andrew's on a date with. Both are here in this scene.

1:28.9

Lola is mad at Andrew because he wouldn't pants her even though it's National Pantsing Week.

1:34.0

In the prior scene, Lola expressed his frustration by Pantsing Nick

1:38.0

to the point his underwear came down, showing his penis to the entire school, including his crush, an event, as we discuss,

1:44.4

based on real life Nick's own childhood.

1:47.2

Andrew, who doesn't particularly like Lola,

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