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Good One

Pete Holmes’s Green Eggs and Ham

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jesse David Fox talks to Pete Holmes about a joke from his 2016 special Faces & Sounds. They talk about Pete's "spidey sense" as a comedian, why anger can be a great cue, and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello. I am Volchre Senior Editor Jesse David Fox and welcome to another episode of Good

0:10.9

One, a podcast about jokes. It's

0:14.8

the season finale. Yay!

0:17.6

Boo. Whether this is the first episode you're listening to or you listen every week, I just want to say thank you.

0:24.0

Especially this season, I've been getting really surprisingly kind for you back from comedians, comedy fans, and

0:29.6

fans of just hearing how artists make their art and it embigens my little

0:33.6

podcasting heart. You record these things mostly in small rooms with no one around

0:37.8

so it really helps you remember why you're doing it when you hear that has

0:41.0

connected to those outside this quiet space with headphones and

0:43.7

microphones.

0:44.7

Since it's the season finale, I thought I should have a special guess, and I think I do.

0:48.9

It is comedian Pete Holmes.

0:50.8

Besides being the co-creator and Star of Crashing and one of my absolute

0:54.0

favorite stand-ups, this podcast probably wouldn't exist without Pete. Of course,

0:58.2

longtime listeners know, Crashing Season 1 sponsored the first season of Good Ones,

1:02.0

but it's more than that. I seriously

1:03.9

learned so much about how comedians talk and think about comedy from listening to

1:07.4

his podcast, you made it weird. I also learned a lot about how they talk and

1:10.8

think about God, but that's a separate matter.

1:13.0

Though it's not really when you listen to the joke we're talking about this episode,

1:16.4

the humbly titled Green Eggs and Ham from his 2016 special, Faces and Sounds.

1:22.1

At first it might seem like another joke about a funny thing

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