Danny McBride's The Righteous Gemstones’s Opening Scene (Rerun)

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Danny McBride walks Jesse through the opening scene of his new HBO series The Righteous Gemstones. Along the way, they also touch on the first scenes of his other series and films, including Eastbound & Down, The Foot Fist Way, and Vice Principals. Danny talks about where he wanted to go after Vice Principals ended, as well as the research that went into creating a show about Christian megachurches and superstar preachers. Jesse also asks Danny about how he constructs his antiheroes, and the different ways he utilizes the writers rooms on each of his projects. Also included: dick symbolism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about Gypsies.
0:13.1	I'm your host, Jesse David Fock.
0:15.5	With the righteous Gyms Jones returning to HBO this month, we wanted to rerun my conversation
0:19.4	with its creator, Danny McBride, who originally recorded this interview before the premiere
0:23.5	of the first season 2019.
0:26.5	And no episode of this podcast ever caused more comedians to reach out to me than this
0:32.3	one did.
0:33.3	I wasn't surprised by this at all, as I've known for a while that Danny is really revered
0:38.2	by comedians.
0:39.2	His ability to do work that is ambitious, sophisticated in its conception, really clear
0:43.6	eyeed in his satire, but also has big performances and big jokes is just what so many people
0:49.8	in comedy aspire to.
0:51.6	I know it's weird to call a person on the second season of his third HBO show underrated,
0:56.1	but I do feel like he's a little underrated.
0:59.0	He really is such a deep thinker about his work, and as a result, I feel this interview
1:03.8	is one of the best in the show's nearly five year history.
1:07.9	The episode starts with the first scene of the first episode of the first season of the
1:11.1	righteous Gyms Jones.
1:12.4	If you haven't watched, it's sort of like succession but set in the world of zillionaire
1:15.8	televangelists.
1:17.5	Because a lot of it is visual, let me just say that the scene is set in a wave pool in
1:21.0	Chengdu, China.
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