Good to know that I wasn't the only one rolling my eyes at Mandel's remarks. And Nesteroff knows this subject. I highly recommend his 2018 book The Comedians. It is not a funny book, contrary to at least one Amazon reviewer's expectations, but I learned a lot from it.
On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 11:15:18 AM UTC-4 Tom Wolper wrote: > 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/9dbbade3-fa8d-48d7-b023-d983173c3188n%40googlegroups.com.
