The History of Comedy Since Seinfeld with Jesse David Fox

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jesse David Fox is one of the definitive voices in comedy history and analysis. He’s written for Vulture and New York Magazine and now he sits down with Mike to discuss his new book Comedy Book, which covers among other things the comedy boom of the past 20 or so years. Mike and Jesse break down what it’s like to write *about* comedy, and why Mike trusted Jesse to document his creative process in the Peacock documentary Good One, based on Jesse’s podcast. Plus, Mike holds Jesse’s feet to the fire on a controversial piece Jesse wrote about John Mulaney.

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0:00.0	So I love comedy book.
0:02.0	Oh, thank you.
0:03.0	I wasn't going to read it.
0:05.0	Really?
0:06.0	I thought you would at least read the parts about you.
0:08.0	Which is what a lot of comedians have done.
0:11.0	When they've complimented the book.
0:13.0	They're like, I love the book.
0:14.3	And I realize they mean the part I wrote about them in it.
0:19.9	That is the voice of the great Jesse David Fox.
0:22.8	If you're like a die-hard comedy fan,
0:24.8	I think you know the name Jesse David Fox.
0:27.8	He's written for years for Vulture in New York magazine
0:32.1	and many other publications. He writes about comedy a lot. He's the host of the Good One podcast, which is a show I've been a guest on multiple times the second time recently, which actually also got converted into a good one
0:46.3	documentary, which happens to be about me and my comedy process.
0:51.2	You can watch that on Peock streaming people have really dug
0:55.6	that so I if you haven't heard about it you should go watch it it's really
0:59.7	it's like an hour and it's fun it's interesting it it kind of documents the process of me on
1:04.4	tour starting out the tour that I'm doing right now which by the way thank you for
1:10.6	coming to it's called the Please Stop the Ride Tour. This week I'm in Niagara Falls.
1:15.9	I'm at Fallsview Casino, Niagara Falls. Then at the end of the month, I'm doing five shows at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, New York. I think four of those are sold out.
1:25.2	There's a few left for the show on Sunday. Check out Verbigs.com while they're available.
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