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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Jesse David Fox reckons with the ways that comedy restores, challenges and reorients us.
Description: Jesse David Fox, senior editor at Vulture and host of the fascinating Good One podcast, discusses his divisive theory of “post-comedy” (or forms of humour that don't fit the traditional rubric of "laughs-per-minute"), how the rhythm of comedy has changed in the context of our coronavirus-induced isolation, and how the notion of booms and busts in comedy doesn’t really match up with the historical fact that, as he puts it, “comedy is a renewable resource.”