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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
26 Jul 2023 Conversations with Tyler Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded
“We see some of that in the data, at least for young people. I suspect that’s not the main reason, but part of it.”
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- 26 Jul 2023
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…They don’t get made at all. Maybe some of them are made for TV, but even there, it all seems less funny to me. But it could also be audiences are themselves less funny. They’re more depressed, they’re more neurotic. We see some of that in the data, at least for young people. I suspect that’s not the main reason, but part of it. I don’t know. Sometimes there isn’t a reason. Sometimes there’s just a golden age. Let’s compare it to music. Why is music a little bit stagnant now? Maybe that’s just the ebb and flow of where it’s at, and we’re trying to correlate it to something, but it has nothing to do with that. Maybe it’s just that the great talents are doing other things now, or a lot of the jokes have been told. I don’t know, but there are definitely golden ages of every art form.…
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