Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes, I'm your host, Jesse David Potts.

It's that time of year again, list time, which means my guest this week is Kathmand

Aaron Donk.

Kathmand, of course, is a critic and culture where she reviews television and comedy.

As such, she is tasked with making our annual best specials of the year list.

So as we do every year, we're going to walk through her list.

If you enjoy this conversation, and I hope you do, Kathmand and I co-host a Patreon podcast

called The Specials.

Each month, we take a very deep dive into one stand-up special, included where multiple

specials from comedians on this list, like Gerard Carmichael, Kathmand and Taylor

Thomason.

We also talk about specials from legendary comedians like Richard Pryor and Robin Williams.

So here is Kathmand and Aaron Donk and the best specials of the year.

I'm here with Kathmand and Aaron Donk.

Thank you for joining us.

It's always always a pleasure, Jesse.

So we're talking about the best specials of year 2022.

The first question I want to ask is, you know, I've always wanted a sense of how you feel

when you're making this list.

But I think this is one of the first years, at least I can remember that you did it where

a lot of people, a lot of good comedians put out specials that are not on this list,

but usually it's like, well, the good community puts out the good specials and then that's

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