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Only on Prime Video. Hello, this is Good One. The podcast in which a comedy person, be it stand-up

writer, director, what have you, comes on to play one of their jokes and talks

about how and why it came together like it did. Our guess this week is Whitney Cummings. I've been wanting to have

Whitney on for a while now because I'm friends with her opener from her last

tour Jay of Harris and he'd tell me these stories of just how incredibly hard she

worked on her jokes spending hours a day writing and

researching and throwing things out and then writing some more. She wants to be

bulletproof up there and you can see the results in her work. The joke we're

talking about is from her fourth stand-up special Can I Touch It, which currently is Dreaming on Netflix.

The title leads to both If a comedian is free to address certain sensitive subject matters

nowadays and also the current stage of me too where it feels like

some people are pushing back or at least questioning how they are supposed to behave and

and by some people I mean you know men for the most part but mostly men in the joke Whitney imagines women men.

In the joke, Whitney imagines women gathering together in a football team-like huddle and starting to make some decisions.

So here is Whitney Cummings.

People... is Whitney Cummings. People really want to argue with me about this stuff.

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