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The History of Stand-Up with Wayne Federman

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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The Comedy of the Sixties

This was essentially the first time where comedy was established enough that you had people doing different righty. It carries through into the sixties, as those acts then become that style becomes main stream. Because kennedy gets elected, it sort of becomes wonkey. And then lenny bruce its just in court, hes e, he's dead. Six years later, he's died. A 66, yes. But e was just young. The comedy, what is something very important, but very important, veryand because the sicnic that generation, the new wave, were the first ones to break through with comedy records.

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