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Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded

26 Jul 2023 26 published claims 2 attributable people
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Tyler CowenNoam Dworman

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evaluation 7belief 6observation 4uncertainty 4commitment 4preference 1

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01 / observation

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.

“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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02 / belief

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.

“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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08 / uncertainty

I don’t know if it’s counterproductive. I don’t think it works. Like when I was very nervous to do this interview, you could have said anything you wanted to me.

“I don’t know if it’s counterproductive. I don’t think it works. Like when I was very nervous to do this interview, you could have said anything you wanted to me.”
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Noam Dworman
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09 / observation

I had decided that the only way you could have an affair — I wasn’t married, God forbid — was that you and the woman had to be the only two people who know about it.

“I had decided that the only way you could have an affair — I wasn’t married, God forbid — was that you and the woman had to be the only two people who know about it.”
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17 / observation

If I think of the earlier history of comedy, I see a lot of comedy double acts. Laurel and Hardy, George and Gracie, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen— those have mostly vanished.

“If I think of the earlier history of comedy, I see a lot of comedy double acts. Laurel and Hardy, George and Gracie, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen— those have mostly vanished.”
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Tyler Cowen
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19 / preference

I don’t follow any comedians. I sit there, I read Twitter, and I giggle. There’s maybe a person who’s funny once every four years, but the funniest thing they say becomes viral on Twitter.

“I don’t follow any comedians. I sit there, I read Twitter, and I giggle. There’s maybe a person who’s funny once every four years, but the funniest thing they say becomes viral on Twitter.”
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Tyler Cowen
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20 / evaluation

If I’m at the comedian table and I say something that’s funny, there’s a large number of comedians who will not laugh because it makes them uncomfortable to see a civilian be funny, because it’s a civilian.

“If I’m at the comedian table and I say something that’s funny, there’s a large number of comedians who will not laugh because it makes them uncomfortable to see a civilian be funny, because it’s a civilian.”
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Noam Dworman
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24 / evaluation

Well, it came to the rescue in a certain way, because just as wokeness put a cloud over everything, social media allowed some of the most successful comics working today to distribute themselves directly to their audience and find their audience.

“Well, it came to the rescue in a certain way, because just as wokeness put a cloud over everything, social media allowed some of the most successful comics working today to distribute themselves directly to their audience and find their audience.”
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Noam Dworman
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25 / commitment

We do get complaints from time to time that the seats were too tight. It’s the one complaint I will not address in terms of making changes in the room because I know that it helps.

“We do get complaints from time to time that the seats were too tight. It’s the one complaint I will not address in terms of making changes in the room because I know that it helps.”
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Noam Dworman
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26 / evaluation

Every one of these scenarios might be unique in its own way, but definitely the idea that the radio was a central way of presenting things in those days — I think that probably dictated that a duo was a smart thing to have.

“Every one of these scenarios might be unique in its own way, but definitely the idea that the radio was a central way of presenting things in those days — I think that probably dictated that a duo was a smart thing to have.”
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Noam Dworman
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