Woody Allen
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tetragrammaton |
| 0:02.0 | The big question is this was my theory about belief in God. |
| 0:26.1 | Proof of God would lie in jokes, not quality of jokes or anything, but we all know there are one-liners. |
| 0:36.9 | We're for the nightclub acts, and we know what's written for the television shows and the sitcoms and the dialogue and on that. |
| 0:45.2 | But then there are those jokes that are long jokes, and some of them are quite funny and quite brilliant. |
| 0:53.4 | But they take, you know, a long story. |
| 0:55.7 | A guy walks in here, and then he comes back two weeks later, |
| 0:58.5 | and now the guru is doing this, and he goes out, |
| 1:01.8 | and then finally the punchline is very funny. |
| 1:06.2 | And you think, who writes those jokes? |
| 1:10.8 | They seem to appear on earth, but there's no percentage in writing them. |
| 1:18.0 | They can't be used for anything. |
| 1:20.5 | They can't use them in films, on television, on radio, and nightclubs. |
| 1:25.8 | They're jokes, and they're good jokes. |
| 1:29.1 | But there's no reason for any human being to create them. |
| 1:34.0 | I know of no comedy writer. |
| 1:35.8 | I know so many comedic that ever wrote a joke like that |
| 1:40.6 | or took time to write an actual story joke. It wasn't, you know, a crack, a remark, |
| 1:48.0 | a one-liner, or banter. And yet brilliant, funny jokes appear all the time on the earth. |
| 1:58.3 | So where do they come from? Now, I'm an atheist, so I don't really believe, |
| 2:05.8 | but one could make a case that it's God's way of telling us that he's up there, and he's |
| 2:13.6 | spending a lot of time doing these jokes and sending them down |
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