Noam Dworman: belief

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…There’s something about human synchronization of the audience in there. If you have to extrapolate that to broader social situations, what do you conclude? People pick up on very slight cues in an instinctual level — kind of analogous to pheromones, I guess — that they can’t account for. They don’t know they’re doing it. It probably affects who seems like a likable person, unlikable, who you trust. There’s a million different ways these things present themselves, but it’s real. It’s very real. I would say some people are oblivious to these clues, and they probably suffer for that during their lives. Circa 2023, can comedy still shock us? Simply using the F-word, trying to be like Lenny Bruce — it’s all a big bore, right? Is there shock value left in comedy?…

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