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It's Friday, October 4th, 2024.

From the gist and the comedy seller, I'm Mike Pesca, and this is funny you should mention.

The concept of the comedian as a joke machine, it hasn't been true for a while. I mean, there are many

comedians who are that and thank goodness if they weren't funny they wouldn't

be comedians. They might be performance artists or monologists but they wouldn't be in that

category of person with a microphone using laughs to make a point or making points

in the service of laughter. In 2015 Megan Garber wrote about this in the

Atlantic an article titled how comedians became public intellectual. So that

2015 has been going on for a while. But if comics are indeed public

intellectuals like professors or policy experts or op-ed writers, I do not think they have been sufficiently questioned as such. Yes, of course I would think that right. I love comedy. I love a good argument and by good argument I don't mean or I don't necessarily mean two sides in dispute I mean a

thesis advancing a thesis if comedians are just as likely to pursue a thesis as

they are to note that men drive like this and women drive like that, I don't think

it is the case that they're being sufficiently challenged or drawn out to really hear

the fullness of their ideas and how they came to craft the ideas in a funny way.

So I created funny you should mention.

And I go in knowing, I explain this to all my guests that we understand. Funny comes first.

Comedians are not op-ed writers, though in the case of my next guest.

He actually once did write an op-ed for the New York Times.

But they're not op-ed writers because what op-ed riders do is they use language of course but their goal is to make a point and the goal of the comedian is to elicit language

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