Tina Fey Reads George Saunders Excerpt (Bonus)

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

There is maybe no modern author more respected among comedians than George Saunders. So, Good One is thrilled to offer this exclusive audio excerpt from his new story collection, Liberation Day (out this week). Better yet, reading the excerpt is none other than Tina Fey. We'll be back with a traditional Good One interview next Thursday. To buy tickets to see Jesse David Fox interview Kumail Nanjiani at Vulture Festival, on November 12th, in LA, head here. 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.
0:15.7	Before we get into this bonus episode, I just wanted to plug that Vulture Festival's
0:18.4	happening again the weekend of November 12th and 13th and on the 12th, I'll be doing
0:22.2	a live Good One with Camille Nangiani and I would love for you to come because it's
0:25.9	going to be really good and fun and interesting.
0:29.4	Get tickets at VultureFestival.com.
0:32.3	So what is this episode?
0:34.6	I know there's supposed to be a proper interview this week based on the new bi-weekly release
0:38.8	schedule, but we had a couple of ill-timed illnesses and things got pushed around.
0:44.7	So the next new interview will be coming out next Thursday, but I wanted to give you
0:47.9	something to keep the feed warm and so what we have today is something really special.
0:53.1	This podcast is here to bring you all things comedy and with that, with this bonus episode,
0:58.4	we have an exclusive audio excerpt from George Saunders' new story collection Liberation
1:02.5	Day.
1:03.5	Booker Prize in MacArthur Genius Granicide, Saunders has long been revered by comedians
1:07.5	as the rare writer who really gets comedy.
1:10.5	It's noteworthy than not just anyone gets Tina Fey to lend her voice to their audiobooks.
1:15.5	What follows is Saunders setting up the story, the mom of bold action, and then Fey reading
1:19.2	said story.
1:20.9	So here is George Saunders.
1:24.9	Yeah, so this is from a story, it's the opening of a story called mom of bold action.
1:31.3	And it's just that we're going to drop into the mind and the kitchen of this suburban
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