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Josh Gondelman On Twitter Comedy, Standup And 鈥楲ast Week Tonight With John Oliver'

瓜神app | By Anita Rao,

Published December 1, 2016 at 12:19 PM EST

Photo of comedian Josh Gondelman — Josh Gondelman writes comedy for both his day and night jobs. He's a full-time comedy writer for HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and performs his own standup four or five nights a week.

Comedian has earned the nickname the 鈥渘icest man in comedy,鈥� for his inherently decent and astute comedic style. But many in that world may also consider him to be one of the luckiest men in the business because comedy writing is part of both his day and night jobs. Gondelman is a writer for the Emmy-Award winning HBO show co-authored the book and co-created the famous Twitter account

In addition to all of this, he gets on stage to do his own standup four or five nights a week. Host Frank Stasio talks with Gondelman in advance of his North Carolina appearances, including and one at Saturday, Dec. 3 at 8 p.m.

Here he is performing on Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCyDmsBpcA

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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