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S4 E7: Georgia Pritchett, screenwriter of Succession

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

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Anxiety Is Really Helpful for Comedy

Anxiety is really helpful for comedy. As soon as you make someone laugh, they don't feel threatened. And I think people often underestimate how powerful it is. The Cosby Show did more at the time for black people than any number of petitions. You know, Rose Ann did so much for working class people in America. Ellen and Will and Grace did somuch for gay people.

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