The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers (2022)
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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How Do You Know Which Jokes Work?
It's a sort of interesting thing to watch. Yes, it was enough to set a level for knowing what jokes worked versus other jokes. Those forty people were the least likely to go for the most esoteric jokes. And so that, by losing that test audience, we then had to put our faith in the jokes we liked. After having done the show for two years with no audience, like, we know what works now. Sometimes we have to weather those moments where the joke doesn't work in the room because we value that at home audience more than anything else.
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