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Alexandra Petri

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2018-01-24

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1. “Oh, yeah I grew up reading the post, and so I would always start from the back with the comics section and the Dave Berry you'd have on the weekends you have on the glossy style post magazine. I'm now forgetting the name of it. But you have Dave Berry in there and you have Gene Weingarten. And I was like, oh, this is a career that it's possible to have. You can just write jokes about what's going on. I also growing up always a big reader of comedy columns specifically is a format. So I was sitting there with my big Thurber compilations and hanging out, which all the 1920s. Viewing Thurbur.”

   2018-01-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Alexandra Petri, columnist, the Washington Post · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “So, I want to get a little background for you, how you got to write a humor call. Now, the post has long had them. Gene Weingarten had one, a whole bunch of different people had comedy kind of columns, especially in the style section, or in Sunday style. Talk a little bit about how you got to where you are.”

   2018-01-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Alexandra Petri, columnist, the Washington Post · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Yeah, yeah. Well, it's your last day. We're going to throw you off of it. And anyway, today in the red chair is someone we both are huge fans of, Alexander Petri, just one of my favorite people on Twitter, too, except for Christy Tegan, I have to say. Oh, she's amazing. She's amazing. Anyway, Alexander, also Dick Coslo. She writes the com post blog for The Washington Post, some of Alexander's recent columns include Trump Respects Women, You Disgusting, Fluzy, and Ladies, Let's Be Reasonable About Me Too, or nothing will ever be sexy again. She's also the author of a book called A Field Guide to Awkward Silences, Alexander Welcome to Recode Decode. Thanks for having me. No problem. You know, I am an alumni of the Washington Post. I don't know if you know that. Oh, yeah.”

   2018-01-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Alexandra Petri, columnist, the Washington Post · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT