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Michael Schur in Conversation with Jon Stewart: How to Be Perfect

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What's the Goal of Comedy?

All comedy, all of it, has an expiration date on it. The minute you tell a joke, a clock starts ticking to the point where that joke will either no longer be funny or will be revealed to be offensive or unpleasant for some group as things change. And so wel should never, the goal should never be, i think, to do the same jokes. The goal should be to do new, more interesting, better s that that reflect wherever we are now, right? I think that's exactly right. That twitter is we all now have ve s p. When you do a comedy performance, d is a live performance. Whether you woud wrigting the jokes for es

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