Joel Kim Booster's Gay Dads (rerun)

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Joel Kim Booster talks to Jesse about the evolution of his late night sets and career, focusing in partiuclar on his January 2019 performance on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Joel addresses Asian and gay stereotypes as they've appeared in comedy, as well as why he adopts a "hot idiot" persona onstage despite only being one of those two things. (He's hot, not an idiot.) Watch Fire Island on Hulu, Psychosexual on Netflix, and Loot on Apple TV+ Follow Joel Kim Booster on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Read Alex Jung's profile of Joel Kim Booster on Vulture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.4	Concerts and festivals and big spreads and magazines.
0:51.4	Most of it's been positive.
0:53.4	And funny, praising hip hop's radical history.
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1:05.8	A critical take on hip hop at 50.
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1:15.2	And it's a reflection, I think, of my politics as well.
1:18.3	I'm not ardently, like, and aggressively, like, gay marriage shouldn't be legal, but
1:25.5	I was, I was always one of those, you know, annoying people on the internet where it was
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