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Good One

Padma Lakshmi Would Rather Be Funny Than Hot

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week America's Culinary Cup host Padma Lakshmi joins to discuss how she took control of her image, her life as an activist, and how she wound up doing comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Sherlock Holmes.

0:01.5

It's an unusual name.

0:03.0

Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.

0:07.0

What game are we playing today?

0:09.0

Discover the origins.

0:10.0

It's cleaving. Those days are truly behind me.

0:12.0

Of crime's most iconic mind.

0:14.0

There has been a break-in.

0:17.0

Astoned. You should be a detective.

0:19.0

Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.

0:22.5

If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.

0:25.9

Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video.

0:30.1

I think there are very few places in our culture today where you, and this is the bargain that I believe in.

0:37.4

I know a lot of other people

0:38.4

don't exactly believe in this. If a person is standing on a stage with a mic and it's clear

0:44.5

that an audience is there to watch comedy, I think all bets are off. I think it should be a safe

0:51.7

space.

0:57.7

This is Goodwin. I am Jesse David Fox,

1:00.0

Sina writer at Vulture, and author of Comedy Book.

1:02.7

How does a celebrity take control over how they are perceived?

1:07.0

My guest today, to discuss how she did exactly that is Padma Lakshmi.

1:11.9

For decades as a model in a very public marriage, and the host of Top Chef, she was looked at, gawked at, and observed, but she wasn't the one deciding how she was seen.

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