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Why do comedians think their jobs are so important? I mean I like stand-up as much as the next guy but in terms of \u201cjobs that could be eliminated without any real consequences\u201d it\u2019s near the top of the list

Unironically, because stand-up comedy in the late ‘70s into the early '90s was an important mechanism of how the boomers rallied and reconsolidated for another, successful, push

As continuity with the immediate post-war urban world, this was like\ufffc, Woody Allen’s thing

Huh, maybe I need to integrate the particularity of Chicago and the brick wall stage backdrop into the postwar urban appropriation angle here

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Now I definitely need to integrate Seinfeld as peak product of the '90s back-to-the-city wave, Larry David understanding urban life as essentially secular Jewish but seeing that as rabbinical quibbling over everyday affairs, in contrast to Woody’s midcentury psychoanalytic take

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