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51. Jim Gaffigan: We Met in 1997 at a Pizzeria

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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All Jokes Have Targets, Right?

Comedy is sensibility is always changing those targets. And so in the end there's always a reveal of more of the story that makes them more human, which only makes the joke look more cruel. The thing about put down humor, this has nothing to do with a roast, cause that almost kind of a separate thing. When i have these prototypes of comedians, one of em is the gossip, the gossiper,. Whether it be cafy griffin, you know, it's all these people. It's amazing how they, a lot of em don't age well do i mean, like bob new hearts age well. Jonathan winters, age as well, uramy. But

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