Paul F. Tompkins’s “Peanut Brittle”

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox talks to comedian Paul F. Tompkins! Paul is the host of "The Pod F. Tompkast" and as a frequent guest on popular shows like "Comedy Bang! Bang!" and "Spontaneanation." Tompkins' versatile acting skills have been showcased in television shows such as "BoJack Horseman," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "Veep." You can buy or stream Impersonal wherever you get albums. Paul’s specials are available on Paramount+. You can listen to Threedom, Stay F. Homekins, and any of Paul’s old podcasts wherever you get your podcasts. Head to Paulftompkins.com to buy tickets for future Varietopias or to stream video from old Varietopias. Pre order Jesse's book, Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374604714/comedybook Follow Paul on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram 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 jokes.
0:12.6	I'm your host, Jesse David Fox.
0:14.9	This week's guest is Paul F. Tompkins.
0:17.1	I can't believe this moment has come.
0:18.7	You gotta understand, when you host a comedy podcast, until you have Paul on, it's hard
0:23.1	to feel legitimate.
0:24.1	It only took six years of trying to get our schedules to line up, but we have been
0:28.3	legitimized, and I was not going to waste it.
0:31.6	It's part of that Paul is the consummate guest, the Martin Short to a podcasting, no matter
0:35.9	what the format, Paul of Tompkins brings it.
0:38.7	But also, I always wanted to have Paul on this podcast, because I think he's one of the
0:43.1	great stand-ups.
0:44.1	He's easily one of the greatest stand-ups I've ever seen live.
0:47.2	He's just a versatile.
0:48.2	You know, he can do longer stories, he can do sort of silly act-outs, he does voices,
0:53.5	he can do pathos.
0:55.0	My favorite is he has this ability to seem to go with nothing and just monologue,
0:58.2	extemporaneously, until he finds it.
1:01.1	And because of how good he is, I had been wondering why I hadn't seen him on stand-up
1:04.9	line-ups in a really long time.
1:07.8	After years of being a staple of the LA scene, he just seemed like kind of stopped doing
1:11.9	stand-up ever since his 2015 Comedy Central special crying and driving.
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