Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
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.
Episodes
February 18, 2025 • 68 mins
Inspired by the Dropout show Game Changer, join us for an event that will completely change every ten minutes. Will Dropout all-stars Rekha Shankar (Smartypants), Vic Michaelis (Very Important People), Jordan Myrick (Gastronauts), and Jacob Wysocki (Make Some Noise) improvise, talk thoughtfully about their work, play an elaborate game of “Simon Says” with the audience, or all of the above? That remains to be seen, but no matter wha...
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February 11, 2025 • 57 mins
Comedian Julio Torres joins us for an in-depth discussion about that which colors our lives: color. Warm colors, cold colors, hot colors, bold colors, all of it will be up for discussion in this exploration of the Fantasmas creator, director, and star’s work and life.
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February 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Grab your roommates and your cutest PJs for a comfy brunch celebrating The Sex Lives of College Girls. Creator Justin Noble and cast members Alyah Chanelle Scott, Ilia Paulino, Renika Williams and more will be cozying up with Vulture writer Jason Frank, for a conversation about everything that makes this Max hit our favorite campus sex comedy.
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January 28, 2025 • 49 mins
It’s been ten years since Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader starred in the comedy drama The Skeleton Twins, and what better way to celebrate than talking to them both. Join my vulture colleague, Kathryn Van-Arendonk, for an onstage reunion of two friends as we look back on their years of collaboration, culminating in a true indie classic.
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January 21, 2025 • 80 mins
This week, Director Kevin Smith joins Jesse David Fox for a look back at the classic religious satire Dogma, 25 years after it first blasphemed. Recorded live during 2024's Vulture Festival, you’re invited to sit in on this blessed event that sure will make you thank God, and by that we mean Alanis Morissette.
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January 14, 2025 • 67 mins
This week on Good One, we bring you back to 2024’s Vulture Festival, at which Vulture awarded the writing staff of Abbott Elementary the first ever Roomie Award. The Roomie Award is an award for writers’ rooms who exhibit the special art of writing collectively. Joining the show’s creator and star Quinta Brunson was Kate Peterman, Justin Tan, Riley Dufurrena, Lizzy Darrell, Brittani Nichols, Brian Rubenstein, Joya McCrory, Patrick ...
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January 7, 2025 • 115 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Kathryn VanArendonk back to the podcast to discuss the best comedy specials of 2024.
Kathryn’s list:
10. Ali Wong, Single Lady (Netflix)
9. Langston Kerman, Bad Poetry (Netflix)
8. Ramy Youssef, More Feelings (Max)
7. Kyle Kinane, Dirt Nap (YouTube)
6. Courtney Pauroso, Vanessa 5000 (Dropout)
5. Anthony Jeselnik, Bones and All (Netflix)
4. Nikki Glaser, Someday You’ll Die (HBO)
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December 24, 2024 • 96 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Nate Bargatze back to the podcast. This time, he is joined by Saturday Night Live castmember Mikey Day and co-head writer Streeter Seidell, the duo Bargatze worked with on the mega-viral “Washington’s Dream” sketches.
If you want to watch the interview, head over to https://youtu.be/3AAhzApSGGE
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December 17, 2024 • 70 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox celebrates to 30th anniversary of “Lisa on Ice,” the beloved Simpsons classic about when Bart and Lisa played for rival hockey teams. Recorded live at Vulture Festival in LA, Fox is joined by Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith, the voices of Bart and Lisa respectively, writer Mike Scully, seasons five and six showrunner David Mirkin, and consulting producer/animator David Silverman.
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December 10, 2024 • 59 mins
This week on Good One, Katt Williams returns to the podcast. Recorded live at 2024’s Vulture Festival, Williams discusses his Club Shay Shay interview, his upcoming comedy tour, and how he taught Steph Curry to shoot. Watch the interview over at Youtube.com/Vulture!
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December 3, 2024 • 65 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox interviews comedy icon Mike Myers. The conversation touches on Myers’s entire legendary career, from Wayne’s World to Austin Powers to Shrek. Recorded live at 2024’s Vulture Festival, Myers was the recipient of Vulture’s Honorary Degree, an award given out every year to an artist with a lasting impact on the culture. Watch the interview over at Youtube.com/Vulture!
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September 5, 2024 • 96 mins
It's that time of year again! Vulture dropped their annual list of all the future stars of comedy. In honor of this special occasion, we compiled mini Good One episodes featuring each list-honoree so they could introduce themselves to you personally.
This week—in alphabetical order by first name—we present to you the Comedians You Should and Will Know, 2024:
Sabrina Brier
Sam Campbell
Nico Carney
Aaron Chen
George Civeris
Frances...
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June 18, 2024 • 79 mins
As we do every June, host Jesse David Fox brings Vulture critic Kathryn VanArendonk review on the podcast to share her list of the best comedy specials of the year so far (yeah, it's a short list).
The specials discussed:
Alex Edelman, Just for Us (HBO/Max)
Nikki Glaser, Someday You’ll Die (HBO/Max)
Kyle Kinane, Dirt Nap (YouTube)
Jacqueline Novak, Get on Your Knees (Netflix)
Ali Siddiq, The Domino Effect Part 3 and 4 (YouTube)
Tay...
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June 11, 2024 • 69 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Tig Notaro back to the podcast. Tig walks through her entire career via her best jokes with a new format called “Joke Superlatives.” Tig newest special, Hello Again, is out now on Prime Video. The film she co-wrote and co-directed, Am I Ok? is out now on Max. Stream her podcast, Handsome, wherever you get your podcasts.
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June 4, 2024 • 90 mins
Before this most recent season, Ego Nwodim had already found a place for herself at Saturday Night Live. But it was this year, where she really making the show her own, getting on some of the silliest characters in the shows long history. On this week’s Good One, Nwodim talks with host Jesse David Fox about the characters that got her there.
Sketches/Clips Mentioned:
Pasta
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May 28, 2024 • 131 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes John Early back to the podcast. John talks about his 2023 HBO special, Now More Than Ever, and specifically a 20-minute section on millennials, modern life, and the internet that Jesse has been obsessed with for a year. They have so much fun!
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May 14, 2024 • 63 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Mike Birbiglia back to the podcast. Mike walks Jesse through the joke at the climax of his most recent Netflix special, The Old Man and the Pool. The two also discuss making Good One: A Show About Jokes, the Peacock documentary special adaptation of this podcast, of which Mike was the subject of.
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April 30, 2024 • 127 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Alex Edelman podcast to talk about his special, Just For Us, which premiered on Max earlier this year. Alex walks Jesse through incarnations of the same story about the time his Orthodox Jewish family celebrated Christmas.
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April 16, 2024 • 100 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Kyle Kinane back to the podcast to talk about his sixth stand-up special, Dirt Nap, which is currently available on YouTube. Kyle discusses putting together the incredible, nearly 50-minute story that he closes the special with me.
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April 2, 2024 • 92 mins
This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Ramy star/co-creator Ramy Youssef to the podcast to discuss his newest stand-up HBO special, More Feelings. Ramy had been touring his hour for years, but the set really came to focus in the weeks following October 7. This episode they discuss the first joke he wrote about what is happening in Gaza.
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