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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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The Evolution of Stand-Up Comedy
I saw Mulaney do a headlining set and it was some of the best jokes I had ever seen in my life. He was 24 years older, 25 years old. And perhaps the most abstract stand-up comedy set I'd ever seen. Not like in the sense of Steven Wright, not like jokes in that form but like here's some big diffuse ideas with some really perfect specifics. But they're very much about who he is in the world, which takes some time to get to. Some people are great at it right off the bat. You don't know if everyone ends up there, but I think people are.
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