Comedian George Wallace

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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George Wallace has been doing stand-up for almost 50 years. He came up in New York – his roommate was Jerry Seinfeld. Wallace's humor, like Seinfeld's, is observational. The stakes are usually pretty low, the punchlines and wordplay pretty frequent. Which is to say, a George Wallace joke from the '80s can still kill today. The man is a legend and he joins us to talk about his decades long career as a stand-up comedian.

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0:40.0	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. George Wallace has been doing stand-up comedy for almost 50 years.
0:45.0	He's a veteran of couches on both the Tonight Show and the Late Show.
0:49.0	He's been in dozens of movies and even more television shows.
0:53.3	He is basically royalty in Las Vegas, where he has done so many
0:56.9	residencies that he's lost count.
1:00.1	Wallace came up in New York alongside a a well-known roommate Mr. Jerry Seinfeld,
1:06.1	and Wallace's humor likes Seinfeld's is observational.
1:09.9	The stakes are usually pretty low, the punchlines and wordplay frequent. The 79 can still kill. I'm getting scared to flight now.
1:24.0	I was in New York at the airport three weeks ago
1:26.0	when the plane run right off the runway into the water
1:28.0	and I'm thinking first of all,
1:30.0	anybody's stupid enough to get on an airplane
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