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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Nikki Glaser Roasts Bruce Willis

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Nikki Glaser asserted herself as a ruthless and talented roaster at Comedy Central's Roast of Rob Lowe in 2016, so it was no surprise that she was invited back for Bruce Willis in 2018. Nikki walks Jesse through the roast process from start to finish, explaining the massive undertaking that is writing effective insults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a HeadGum Podcast.

0:04.0

Fulture's Good One Podcast is sponsored by ABC's The Alex Baldwin Show, airing Sundays at 10-9

0:10.0

Central. No monologue, no band, just Baldwin and good old-fashioned conversation with

0:14.5

interesting people like Mike Myers and Cecile Richards. Don't miss it. Hello, I'm Volchre Senior Editor Jesse David Fox, and this is Good One, a podcast about jokes.

0:35.3

Considering such, it's surprising we've taken so long to do an episode about Roast.

0:40.0

Roast, whose roots stayed back over century with New York's Friars Club, is a joke writer's

0:45.2

medium. Though most people associate them with meanness, which is undeniably a part of it,

0:50.3

Gross jokes give the best comedians an opportunity to succinctly pack so much insight and personality into the least amount of space.

0:58.0

Even more than monologue jokes which are inherently reactionary, each roast joke tends to be a distillation of hours or research and analysis.

1:06.5

That's why I'm so so excited to have as our guest this week.

1:09.9

One of the best to ever do them, comedian, post a view up on Comedy Central radio, Mickey Glazer.

1:16.6

After proving herself with the Comedy Central Rose of Rob Lo, Nicky truly separated herself

1:21.0

and defined a style all to her own with a rose of Bruce Willis earlier this year.

1:25.0

This episode we talked about all that went into each one of her jokes from that night.

1:29.0

It's a lot.

1:30.0

Before we start, it might be useful to picture the dais, as sometimes she uses just the first names of people.

1:36.0

So in the front row from left to right, the had Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollack, Martha Stewart,

1:41.2

little rail, and Domerera.

1:43.0

In the back row was the host Joseph Ford Leavitt, who was sitting in Nicky's seat when she went,

1:48.0

then Edward Norton, Civil Shepherd, Jeff Ross, and Dennis Rodman.

1:52.0

So, without further ado, Mickey Goyser.

1:55.6

Joseph Gordon Love it, everyone.

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