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Good One

Sara Schaefer's Hobby Lobby

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This episode, Jesse talks to stand-up comedian and TV writer Sara Schaefer. Back in 2013, Sara and fellow comedian Nikki Glaser adapted their podcast “You Had to Be There” into the MTV late night show Nikki & Sara Live, which ran for two seasons. Since then, Sara has written for numerous TV programs, including The Fake News with Ted Nelms, The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and Problematic with Moshe Kasher. Sara started working on the joke discussed here in early 2017, before performing it as part of her Edinburgh Fringe Festival show that summer; however, the version you’ll hear is from her 2019 album LIVE LAUGH LOVE. It’s a sixteen-and-a-half-minute magnum opus about her first trip to Hobby Lobby—you know, the arts & crafts chain store that won a Supreme Court case allowing them to not cover contraceptives in their employees’ health insurance plans? Yeah, that one. In the joke Sara tries to reconcile her views on the company with her desperate need to get a basket for her crafts nook. It’s an epic journey.  You can listen to LIVE LAUGH LOVE wherever you buy or stream music. You can pre-order a copy of her memoir Grand, which comes out August 11, wherever books are sold. Follow Sara on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. NOTE: In the interview, Sara misidentified a radio host who was fired for making racist tweets. It was not Opie, but Opie's former co-host, Anthony Cumia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white momfelancer of attempting to kidnap her children.

0:07.5

The Karen phenomenon where white women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually fixates on the accuser, the so-called

0:14.8

Karen. But for this series we focus on the innocent couple at the heart of this story.

0:19.7

I just want the public to know what she did was wrong.

0:24.0

In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen,

0:26.4

available now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.4

Hey, it's Jesse.

0:31.6

Just want to let you know in the interview you're going to hear, Sarah mistakenly

0:34.6

identified a radio host who was fired for making racist tweets. She said it was Opie, but it was in fact

0:39.6

Opie's former co-host Anthony Kumio. Hi, hello, how's it going? Yeah, I know, but welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes. I'm your host,

0:59.3

Volcher Senior Editor, Jesse David Fox. Each episode a comedian comes on to play a clip of one of their jokes

1:05.0

and then discusses how they wrote it and how it fits into what they're trying to do with their comedy.

1:09.0

Sometimes the jokes are small, like a baby, but you know, like a small baby.

1:14.8

The joke will be a minute long, maybe two will be a one-liner or two-liner.

1:19.6

I think for the Neil Brennan episode it was like a short three second throwaway line. Other times the

1:24.7

jokes are big babies, I know as a former big baby. Jen Kirkman, Bill Burr, Tignetaro, they all

1:31.0

had jokes well over 10 minutes. No one touches Gary Goldman whose joke was an unbelievable 25 minutes, but this week's joke definitely tries.

1:39.0

The joke writer in question, and my guests today, is stand-up comedianup comedian TV writer and soon-to-be author

1:44.4

Sarah Schaefer. The subject is her 16-and-a-half minute Magnum Opus about our first

1:49.1

trip to Hobby Lobby, the infamous Arts and Crafts store who's best known for winning a Supreme Court case that allow them to offer health insurance policies that excluded covering certain birth controls.

1:59.0

Last week, our guest Daniel Sla, spoke about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from the perspective of a UK comedian and how they're expected to bring a new show there every year.

2:08.0

In this episode, Sarah talks about what the festival is like for comedians coming from America, try their hands at adapting their style to something that leans closer to the one-person show.

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