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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes is a podcast about - well - jokes, and the people who tell them. Each week, a comedian will play one of their jokes and then break it down with Vulture.com Senior Editor Jesse David Fox.

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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

This week on 'Good One', instead of a traditional deep dive interview, comedian Jay Jurden joins Jesse to unpack the biggest comedy news story happening right now – the Riyadh Comedy Festival; Why giant checks warp choices, what “free speech” really means when a contract bans criticism, and the difference between performing in a country and performing for its rulers. Jay talks personal safety as a queer comic, the soft-power calculus behind overpaying American stars, and why “come back safe—then we clown you” is the longstanding rule. 
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Comedians Won't Forget Who Performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival Soon (with Jay Jurden)

Caleb Hearon stops by to talk about his HBO Max special 'Model Comedian', being extremely online, and why not getting SNL was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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Caleb Hearon Is Happy Whether You Like It or Not

Gianmarco Soresi joins us to discuss how he relates to different audiences, his new special 'Thief of Joy', and building a fanbase on social media.
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How Gianmarco Soresi Is Conquering Social Media

Amber Ruffin joins us to talk about Detroiters, her ten years at Late Night with Seth Meyers, doing improv in Amsterdam of all places, and making even today’s news into comedy on CNN’s Have I Got News for You.
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Amber Ruffin Is the Most Fun Person In America

This week on Good One, John C. Reilly—one of the greatest actors in comedy or drama—joins us to talk about Walk Hard, Step Brothers, his relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson and Mister Romantic, the cabaret character he’s been performing as around the country, who recently put out an album of standards from the American songbook.
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John C. Reilly Wants to Keep "Kind & Loving" Comedy Alive

This week on Good One, BenDeLaCreme stops by to talk about RuPaul's Drag Race, snatch game, The Jinkx & Dela Holiday Special, and also, culture!

 00:00 Intro
00:00:32 Funniest thing of the week
00:01:26 BenDeLaCreme
00:02:42 Drag going mainstrem
00:09:11 Snatch Game
00:26:33 Seeing the matix of Drag Race
00:34:55 How Drag Race helps all drag
00:36:00 Collaboration with Jinx Monsoon
00:45:58 Pee-wee Herman
00:51:11 Drag and Christmas
00:54:17 Shaping DeLa's worldview
01:01:26 Art and Grieving
01:08:53 How Art was Institutionalized
01:17:20 The Laughening Round
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BenDeLaCreme on if Drag is too Mainstream to be Provocative

This week on Good One, Jinkx Monsoon joins us to talk about RuPaul's Drag Race, Broadway, working with BenDeLaCreme on 'The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show', and taking over for Cole Escola in the Tony Award winning play 'Oh, Mary!'

00:00 Intro
00:01:00 Meeting Katy Perry
00:08:10 Meeting Charlie Day
00:13:14 How drag has changed
00:17:14 Broadway and drag
00:26:09 Relating to 'Oh, Mary!'
00:32:34 'Pirates! The Penzance Musical'
00:35:11 Mary Todd Lincoln's makeup
00:37:13 Working with Kumail Nanjiani
00:41:06 Manifesting the MCU
00:43:14 Who should play Mary next?
00:47:16 Drag Race
01:12:13 The Laughening Round
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After 'Oh, Mary!' Jinkx Monsoon Wants to Play Mystique in the MCU

This week on Good One, comedian Ralph Barbosa joins us to talk about his new Hulu special 'Ralph Barbosa: Planet Bosa', writing jokes about immigration, and what it's like to do comedy that ends up going viral on the internet.

00:00 Intro
00:00:53 Funniest thing of the week
00:03:04 Don't Tell Comedy set
00:05:09 Getting political
00:08:03 Immigration
00:23:02 Going on Rogan
00:25:42 Getting personal
00:31:20 Almost going blind
00:34:08 Barbershop humor
00:37:03 Losing a friend
00:41:58 Influences
00:46:51 Looking high
00:50:16 Crowd work clips
00:51:24 Adam Sandler
00:53:19 On acting
00:56:09 Jokes in Spanish
01:00:16 The Laughening Round
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Ralph Barbosa Likes Keeping You Guessing on His Politics

This week on Good One, Ben Stiller joins us for a conversation about his journey from being a comedy superstar in legendary films like Zoolander, Tropic Thunder and Meet the Parents, to the director and executive producer who brought the creepy, crazy world of Severance to life on Apple TV+.

00:00 Intro
00:01:00 Happy Gilmore 2
00:04:30 Severance
00:18:34 The Mystery of Severance
00:23:48 Severance season finale
00:31:17 The Cable Guy vs Severance
00:38:07 Tropic Thunder
00:43:40 Working with Robert DeNiro
00:46:10 Zoolander
00:48:40 Sondheim
00:52:04 Parenthood
01:05:28 The Laughening Round
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Ben Stiller Explains Severance’s Early Days, Mysteries & "Weird" Tone, Talks Happy Gilmore 2

This week on 'Good One' comedian and actor Bill Burr sits down for a conversation about the trajectory of his career, from his early, angry days to his Broadway run and his two-time Emmy nominated special, 'Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years', streaming now on Hulu. The album, 'Drop Dead Years', is available August 1 anywhere you stream music.

00:00 Intro
00:00:52 Funniest thing that happened this week
00:03:19 His most recent special
00:06:22 Having a breakthrough
00:12:55 Regretting jokes
00:19:20 Going "Woke"
00:28:08 Politicians and comedy
00:32:12 Having kids
00:43:45 Taking mushrooms
00:48:32 Huge venues
00:53:08 Doing Broadway
00:57:58 Losing Bob Saget
01:02:08 The Conan O'Brien Mark Twain Prize
01:10:22 The Laughening Round
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BenDeLaCreme on if Drag is too Mainstream to be Provocative

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