The Karol Markowicz Show: Inside the Mind of a Comedy Writer: Jim Treacher on Humor, Culture, and the Future of AI

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode, Karol Markowicz sits down with comedy writer and podcaster Jim Treacher for a candid conversation about the art of humor and the evolving world of creative writing.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:09.5	Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHartRadio.
0:13.8	My guest today is Jim Treacher.
0:16.2	Jim is the host of the podcast, Cue the Crickets,
0:18.9	and has a substack at jimtreatcher.substack.com.
0:23.2	Hi, Jim. So nice to have you on.
0:25.6	Thank you very much. Yes. Well, why not?
0:27.8	Yeah, why not?
0:28.6	What's the worst that could happen? Exactly. I can't think of any bad things that could happen.
0:33.0	You and I know each other online a long, long time. I was thinking about that today.
0:37.9	And I love interviewing people that I've known for a long time,
0:41.7	but I might not know there, you know, as my kids would say, origin story.
0:45.8	So tell me how you got into being a comedy writer.
0:50.2	Or would you self-describe as a comedy writer?
0:52.8	I have written comedy.
0:54.4	I did that until recently.
0:55.8	Well, I started off, like, a lot of people blogging.
0:59.0	I've heard of it, yeah.
1:00.5	Yeah, 25 or so years ago.
1:03.1	And I did that for a while.
1:04.9	And then I got hired by one crazy TV guy and did that for a while.
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