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16 Aug 2017 Conversations with Tyler Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man
“There was a time when half the jokes you heard, and this was in my lifetime, were Polish jokes, whatever. And as we think back, it was kind of stupid.”
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…Are there common targets of humor you think are unfairly maligned, other than the common tendency to attack, say, Republicans or the Right, but at the social level? Well, not so much anymore. There was a time when half the jokes you heard, and this was in my lifetime, were Polish jokes, whatever. And as we think back, it was kind of stupid. Polish people are not less intelligent. Chopin, right? Let’s joke about Chopin.…
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