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Published · transcript-backedNoam Dworman: uncertainty
26 Jul 2023 Conversations with Tyler Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded
“I don’t know that it’s harder or easier, but I know that there are certain people who just can fill a room.”
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- 26 Jul 2023
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…But isn’t YouTube harder in a way? Because you’ve got to pretend there’s a live audience there, so it takes all the more effort, energy, dynamism. Is it that they overshoot or that they come off flat? What exactly happens? I think YouTube is just different. I’ve never done it. I don’t know that it’s harder or easier, but I know that there are certain people who just can fill a room. I’ll give you an example. Chappelle — he has a talent. He can just talk for three hours. Doesn’t have to be hitting punch lines. And people will just sit there and listen to him. It’s hypnotic. He’s magnetic. I can’t account for that. It wouldn’t work on YouTube. I don’t think anybody would sit and watch him on YouTube. The only other person I know who has that is maybe Howard Stern. Somehow, he can just talk and talk and talk, and people will listen. It’s just a different talent, I think. On Twitter, why are just ordinary people so often funnier than the comedians?…
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