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Josh Gondelman
@joshgondelman.bsky.social
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Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
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Possibly the most controversial paragraph in the history of That’s Marvelous. Read the whole thing here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/159-tktk-and...
I don’t relish saying this, homemade cranberry sauce, but you fall into this category. While you are more widely beloved than house-made ketchup, so is freezer burn. When most people think of cranberry sauce, they picture a wobbly purple cylinder that reverse-slurps its way out of an aluminum can. If pressed, am unsure that I could honestly say that there is for sure any authentic cranberry matter involved. When I see a homemade batch, I always think: Why are there so many cranberries in here? Who wants these orbs in their sauce?
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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You mean do I own this garment? Yes obviously.
Todd Snyder forest green hoodie with a picture of snoopy holding a banner that says “beantown” and captioned BOSTON
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Happy to be home with our goblin and her goblin!
Maggie the pug giving STRONG side-eye while holding her little stuffed pug in her mouth.
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Thanks to Ben Katzner for absolutely demolishing up top last night!
Me and Ben Katzner backstage at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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My dad briefly turned into Mary Oliver while describing the New England Patriots.
Text message reading “soft but resilient.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Thanks to the Parkway Theater and the people of Minneapolis (and St. Paul) for a wonderful night!
Marquee from the parkway theater with my name on it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Thank you to the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis for stocking the green room with the potato chips of my homeland!
A little bag of Cape Cod potato chips.
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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TSA x Sebastian Maniscalco is the wildest comedy special promo collab I’ve ever seen.
Ad for Sebastian’s new special at the bottom of a TSA luggage bin that says “PLACE YOUR EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE HERE”
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Minneapolis: I had to leave this perfect croissant at home, so please come and enjoy my show tonight!!! Tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
Maggie the Pug curled up like a little croissant on the couch!
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I’m extremely excited that my friend Ben Katzner will be opening for me at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis this Sunday (11/23)! But also I want you all to see that I got a cool new sweater. 📸: Josh Pacheco Ticket link: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
Me on the set of going down with Ella yurman at second city in Brooklyn. I’m wearing a cool-ass new sweater, the cardiglen from Corridor.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I’m about to host the YouTube chat for the National Book Awards! Come see what that means if you’d like! I think it’ll be fun! I’m excited to celebrate some great books and authors! Watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKM...
My face and shoulders and I’m wearing a grey suit and a floral tie and there’s a lot of glare in my glasses!
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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From this week's That's Marvelous, a plea for more tv shows and movies where people don't talk about working on themselves and maybe aren't working on themselves that hard at all. Read the whole thing here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/158-new-york...
Potentially unpopular opinion: We need more stories about people who are not in therapy and are just like...flailing. Therapy is good, but it's not always interesting, and The Sopranos convinced a generation that it was important to storytelling. I'm not convinced that that's true! It just means The Sopranos did it well. (This is not about Shrinking, our current most-therapy-forward show! It's way more about how the Beverly Hills Cop reboot had a subplot about how Axel Foley should be in therapy. Duh! But...no fun!) The great critic Kathryn VanArendonk was posting a little about flashbacks and trauma (F&T) on Bluesky last week, and it got me up on my dumb soapbox. Sorry!
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Wow it’s wild out in these streets. Bentley moving vans everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Taking my jokes and sweaters back on the road a bunch! Come hang out! Visit www.joshgondelman.com for ticket info!
A picture if me in a nice floral sweater and plaid track jacket with tour dates overlaid. 11/23: Minneapolis 11/28-12/14: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo’s Christmas Show Tour 12/28: Seattle 12/30-12/31: Portland 1/17: SF Sketchfest
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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From this week’s newsletter, some words on the concept of a “heat check.” Read it all: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/157-jennifer...
Does everybody know about the concept of a "heat check?" It's a basketball term referring to a player who has hit a a few shots in a row and decides to test the strength of their momentum by launching another shot from exceptional distance, or while off-balance, or in the face of smothering defense. It's a useful framework for extra-basketball behavior as well. Damien Chazelle following up Whiplash and La La Land with the chaotic and far-ranging Babylon was a heat check. Meghan Markle launching a line of jams was a heat check. Any athlete who puts out a rap song...heat check. I bring this up because on Tuesday night I witnessed possibly the greatest heat check of my life. It was well after midnight, and an exuberant lingered crowd on the sidewalk outside of the Paramount in Brooklyn, the site of Zohran Mamdani's official post-election party. A DJ with a powerful bluetooth speaker was buoying the already effervescent mood with a wide range of songs. He caused a borderline frenzy by throwing on "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled featuring a bunch of actual artists. He followed up the 21st century's preeminent Jock Jam (unofficial) with the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" which is a song made for bar mitzvahs and movie montages of friends having a great night out that doesn't include club drugs. It was a little corny, sure, but it kept a sense of millennial optimism going. The crowd, who had previously been turning up to some Middle Eastern dance music I didn't recognize was now shouting: "Mazel tov!"
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Doing a show tonight in Greenpoint! Fun lineup! Excited for this!
Comedy show at Lighthouse in Greenpoint with Jay Jurden, Kenice Mobley, and Brittany Carney
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This month marks the three year anniversary of That's Marvelous! Here's a little excerpt from this week's installment. Read the whole thing here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/156-pep-talk...
Time doesn't heal all wounds (and it takes care of even fewer injuries without intervention). It's like saying "heat cooks all food." Yeah, but how much heat? And also you still have to like...assemble the ingredients and put the food in the oven. But you've got effort and ability, and those things plus time do tend to square away most tasks. Not doing this task will for sure not help. Even with time. But you've got this...because nobody else does.
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Me on the street wearing an I voted sticker.
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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If you dress as Oasis for a Halloween party in Bed-Stuy there is an enormous chance that people will assume you’re doing racially uncomfortable Run-D.M.C. cosplay. You live and you learn!
Me and Maris in adidas and bucket hats as oasis. Maris has a tambourine on her head like Liam Gallagher.
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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On this week’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me, I ask Julia Fox if her butt derailed the Tour de France.
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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No costume tonight but I am wearing the Adidas x Simpsons Kang and Kodos “Treehouse of Horror” Forums.
Green adidas sneakers with alien eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Added to tonight’s already excellent Sup, Bro? lineup at Union Hall in Brooklyn is the great Padma Lakshmi!!! This is how @alisonleiby.bsky.social and I will feel if you don’t make it there!!! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/sup-boo-ti...
Me and Alison giving big ass thumbs downs. Alison is holding a drink. I’m wearing a really cool sweater.
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Is the mob consumed by millennial nostalgia? It's more likely than you think! (Read this week's That's Marvelous newsletter and subscribe/share if you enjoy it, please!) www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/155-the-mob-...
I'm kind of dazzled by the idea that these whales (which are not the same as fish, biologically, I understand) were supposedly lured in by an NBA coach who has (to put it gently) never succeeded at that job and whose playing career inarguably peaked in 2004. That means that the mob (SHOULD THESE ALLEGATIONS PROVE TRUE) was ahead of the curve on identifying the allure of millennial early-century nostalgia. I would have loved to hear a low ranking mafia associate say to an acquaintance/accomplice: "This guy thinks he's going to come in here and take our money? Well call him Zooey Deschanel because that's just adorkable."
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I’m so excited to be a part of this great Bullseye Live 25th Anniversary show on 11/15 at The PIT in NYC! Get your tickets here: maximumfun.org/events/live-...
Flyer for the Bullseye show also featuring Tony Shaloub, H. Jon Benjamin, Jad Aymara, and Robert Lopez/Kristen Anderson Lopez
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Two more shows tonight at @sprtsdrnk.bsky.social in New Orleans! I drank this non-alcoholic Bloody Mary to make sure I am awake and alert for you!
A Bloody Mary.
October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM