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#147 — Stephen Fry

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What Do You Hate About Comedy?

We met at university when we were both in o 18 30 twenties, and instantly i hit it off. I sold have describedi as like falling in love only in a non nonsexual or even romantic way. We absolutely agreed on what we hated in comedy. If someonen can do it as a vague remark in a saloon bar in the evening, it is not worthy of professional comedy. And i suppose hu and i had a very high doctrine of what comedy should be. It should surprise and be unlike anything you had ever heard before. Even then, even back in the early eighties, there were starting to be these waves of comedians who were just doing this thing about being a

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