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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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How to Write a Joke

When he was first doing stand up in Chicago all my jokes like I said was sort of one-liners and I really had this like that on stage is sort of how I am off stage. Pete Holmes still makes fun of me for it all the time. He does impressions of old come out. They're not flattering. His nukemelsucks do. And so because I was nervous there were only certain kinds of jokes I could do. That ended up being something that's close to how I am on stage.

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