Sam Jay's White People Dancing

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Sam Jay back to the show. Since they last spoke, Jay left her job writing for Saturday Night Live to host her own talk show, the revolutionary, provocative Pause on HBO and co-create Peacock’s Bust Down. Jay is here to talk about her newest special, Salute Me or Shoot Me where she displays what really edgy material looks like. You can stream Salute Me or Shoot Me and Pause on Max. 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 Buy tickets for Jesse’s November 7 Brooklyn book release comedy show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-good-show-to-celebrate-the-release-of-comedy-book-tickets-696148497897?aff=odwdwdspacecraft Buy tickets for Jesse’s November 13 Los Angeles book release comedy show: https://www.squadup.com/events/a-very-good-show-to-celebrate-the-release-of-comedy-book-w-chris-fleming-jay-jurden-joel-kim-booster-naomi-ekperigin-and-more 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, I'm your host Jesse David Fox.
0:15.9	In my upcoming book, Comedy Book, how comedy conquered culture and the magic that makes
0:20.2	it work.
0:21.2	I have a chapter ostensibly around the political correctist conversation, but really it
0:26.8	is about how comedians succeed and fail at pushing the audience's boundaries.
0:32.6	Formerly it is about the line.
0:34.8	The line between too far and just far enough.
0:37.9	There are many comedians I think of who are masters of the line, Anthony Jesselnick, Bill
0:42.9	Burr, and this week's guest Sam J, whose second stand-up special, Salute Me or Shoot
0:48.1	Me, came out on HBO earlier this year.
0:51.8	The joke we'll be talking about is from that special and offers a glimpse of that style.
0:56.8	Sam with her conversational style casually goes farther than the audience is comfortable
1:00.6	with and then maybe goes a little bit further than that, only to bring it all back to make
1:05.2	an even deeper point.
1:07.4	Unlike so many comedians who fashion themselves edgy these days, introducing a word they
1:12.3	aren't supposed to say and then saying it to an audience who is there to see them say
1:16.2	slurs, Sam is genuinely provocative and with real intention.
1:21.8	So before we get to that and speaking of my book, I am putting on two shows to celebrate
1:29.0	its release in November.
1:30.5	On November 7th at the Bell House in Brooklyn, I'll be doing a Q&A followed by performances
1:35.4	from the likes of Joe Perra, Joe Firestone, Marie Faustin, and Josh Gondelman.
1:39.5	On November 13th at Dinesy Typewriter in LA, I'll be doing the same with performances
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