Guy goes into Italian agents offices at the greatest act in the world.

It's a family action.

And the agent goes, well, what do you people do?

But so, yeah, I don't know, just the idea that this is some kind of special property, like,

this is the bohemian grove of, like, transgressive comedy or something.

I don't like it.

Yeah, so the most obvious, the most straw man and predictable modern day take on this movie. The one that Penjolette would

give you is you couldn't make this movie today because the snowflakes wouldn't be able to take it.

You know, you'd be criticized for making light of rape and childhood sexual abuse and other very

serious topics, even though, you know though we comedians were actually therapists.

We're helping you cope with these topics by telling you about them.

But it's really that kind of smug, insidery tone that is the most really dated element of it,

partly because, like, there have been whole revolutions in comedy since this movie was made.

This movie is very proprietary of the idea of what is a comedian.

You know, the comedian is the brotherhood.

It's a special cast of society.

Now comedians are everywhere.

Comedian is a very amorphous category that includes like 25 million people on Twitter.

Everyone is a comedian now in the same sense that like everyone's a pundit.

Everybody that writes about like comic book movies or whatever is like a fucking

pundit that has to tell us their thoughts on every one of Trump's like latest

hypocrisies or whatever.

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