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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: observation
26 Jul 2023 Conversations with Tyler Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded
“We seem to be getting funny bits in different ways, and they’re more condensed, and they come at a higher information density, and we can pull them off the internet or TikTok whenever we want. It seems that sates us, and we enjoy the feeling of control over comedy, which you don’t quite get when you’re watching, say, a hundred-minute film.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 26 Jul 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…[laughs] It’s coming around, that kind of comedy. I don’t know, Tyler. Do you have a thought on that? We seem to be getting funny bits in different ways, and they’re more condensed, and they come at a higher information density, and we can pull them off the internet or TikTok whenever we want. It seems that sates us, and we enjoy the feeling of control over comedy, which you don’t quite get when you’re watching, say, a hundred-minute film. That would be my hypothesis. Does that mean that there are movies that have been made which are funny and would deserve the success of a classic comedy, they’re just not getting appreciated?…
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