I sit down with Jesse David Fox who is a senior editor at Vulture, where he works as the site’s comedy critic. We talk about his new book, our favorite comedians, comedy specials, the best jokes, and much more!

Get Jesse’s Book “Comedy Book How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work” here: https://amzn.to/3Hp6Rya

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Timecodes
0:00 Intro
0:51 Jesse’s Book “Comedy Book How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work”
2:00 Pronouns
5:00 When did Jesse got into comedy?
8:44 Buying casual comedy tickets
15:19 GOAT
16:45 Playing Arenas
22:30 Taylor Tomlinson, Nate Bargatze
29:20 Kumail Nanjiani
31:20 Jerrod Carmichael’s special : Rothaniel
43:05 Lil Rel’s Special
1:01:45 Exaggerating stories
1:21:00 Adam Sandler movies
1:30:00 Alt Comedy
1:32:30 Maria Bamford

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