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 “jobs that could be eliminated without any real consequences” it’s 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, 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
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
Intergenerational consensus on dating teenagers, though
