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26 Jul 2023 Conversations with Tyler Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded
“What’s considered jokes today are comedy bits, and people don’t tell each other comedy bits. I think you’re right — fewer and fewer people tell each other jokes.”
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- Noam Dworman
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- 26 Jul 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…A reader suggests to me that people don’t tell jokes very much anymore, but they watch YouTube or TikTok for humor. How does that affect comedians? What that makes me think of is that at some point, comedians started referring to their bits as jokes, and that happened gradually. I remember waking up and realizing, “Well, that’s not what a joke is.” A joke is a setup and a punch line. A joke isn’t one of your descriptions — that is a funny thing. That’s right. The setup–punch line of a joke is rare. Old people do them sometimes. What’s considered jokes today are comedy bits, and people don’t tell each other comedy bits. I think you’re right — fewer and fewer people tell each other jokes. Why aren’t jokes funny anymore? I don’t ever want to hear jokes. If someone walked into the room, sat at the table, “I’m going to tell you a joke,” I’d be like, tune out. Or maybe this is anthropologically interesting, but funny is the last thing I would expect from them.…
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