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Why comedians stopped being funny
- newsbinator 5y agoThe article doesn't pay off the title. It doesn't tell us why comedians stopped being funny, or even that comedians stopped being funny: merely that comedians are sometimes funny and sometimes serious, and they move from one to the other often without pausing to announce the shift.
- motohagiography 5y agoReal comedy is moral courage. The rest is entertainment. It's a competence, and I'm not sure one can meaningfully criticize comedy without demonstrating some capability in it first. I'd ignore an article like this, but when a guy who describes himself as an author, journalist, and columnist (yet still, not a writer) affects concern about comedians and comedy, I'd wonder if this is the best that the political forces aligned against anything that bruises their increasingly implausible narratives can do.