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Episode 556: Jesse David Fox

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Jesse David Fox covers comedy for Vulture, where he hosts the podcast Good One. His new book is Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture—and the Magic That Makes It Work.

“There’s a complete lack of anyone who’s ever written about comedy seriously compared to any other art form. There’s just nothing. … So the challenge was, how do you start a conversation that no one has been participating in?”

Show notes:

  • @JesseDavidFox
  • Fox’s Vulture archive
  • 3:00 Jason Zinoman’s New York Times archive
  • 5:00 “What Is the Best Adam Sandler Movie?” (Vulture • April 2023)
  • 6:00 Kathryn VanArendonk’s Vulture archive
  • 8:00 “A Note About Splitsider” (Megh Wright• Vulture • Mar 2018)
  • 11:00 “Jerry Seinfeld at Vulture Festival 2015” (Vulture • June 2015)
  • 12:00 WTF with Marc Maron Podcast (Marc Maron • WTF • 2009)
  • 14:00 “Jen Kirkman Turned Catcalling Into One of the Best Street Harassment Jokes Ever” (Vulture • April 2017)
  • 23:00 “An Appreciation of the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” (Ramsey Ess • Vulture • Mar 2018)
  • 23:00 “Maria Bamford Wants to Tell You How Much Money She Makes” (Vulture • Oct 2017)
  • 23:00 “How Funny Does Comedy Need to Be?” (Vulture • Sep 2018)
  • 23:00 “Michelle Wolf on Correspondents Dinner, Social Media” (Vulture • Mar 2020)
  • 23:00 “Disgust is Tom Segura’s Love Language” (Vulture • Sept 2022)
  • 23:00 “The Story Behind Bert Kreischer’s ‘Machine’ Joke” (Vulture • May 2023)
  • 23:00 “Katt Williams Explains Jacksonville Florida” (Katt Williams • Netflix • Jan 2020)
  • 36:00 “How the Internet and a New Generation of Superfans Helped Create the Second Comedy Boom” (Vulture • Mar 2015)
  • 37:00 Las Culturistas (Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang • iHeartRadio • 2016)

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