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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