Kliph Nesteroff is writing a book about comedy and censorship and most of his Twitter feed right now is quotes like Mandel’s below but coming from decades ago like the forties and fifties and being said by comics like Milton Berle and George Gobel.
There’s even a repeating strain from that era of established comics saying that comedy is dying and audiences have lost their sense of humor because they can’t do blackface anymore. On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 10:20 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > "The window is closing on the art form [standup], which I think is really > scary and really debilitating." > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/howie-mandel-netflix-comedy-interview-1235145992/ > (link) > > > B > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/e373339a-e4ad-4c98-9222-46aefa29c2c5n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/e373339a-e4ad-4c98-9222-46aefa29c2c5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiEOYViVyOdp2V0zHVt8GNcqUHJZvWX6UHuVZCWCo%2Bnz9A%40mail.gmail.com.
