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ACFM Trip 33: Comedy

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The Secret of Good Comedy

There was a song in 1984 by the commentators called 19, Not Out. It was a response song to a song called 19 by Paul Hardcastle. Do things stop being funny over time like we talked about that a little bit? If you're in a different era with a different zeitgeist and mood then things that used to be funny are not funny anymore or different certain kinds of comedy don't travel over time. Secret of good comedy isn't it? Timing. In 1933 the England catch his average was 35. In 1984 it was 19.

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