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I love the science of comedy. Comedy nerds know that the one step beyond #TheAristcrats was the time Norm Macdonald decided to commit to doing a kitschy mediocre roast for Bob Saget. It was beyond trolling.
all of his jokes came from the 50’s punchline standup era of comedians you’d see in the Catskills in Dirty Dancing. Any other craftsman woulda instantly *WINK*d or gave some sort of “in on the joke/I’m bombing on purpose” signal.
But the GENIUS of it all was he didn’t BOMB per se (in my world bad albums are just as awesome as classic: it’s the mediocre boring stuff that makes you wanna pull hair out)——the genius is he committed to mediocre
