1. Okay, I tried to resist but can't help it. A few quick thoughts on Joan Rivers & 1950s "sick" or "new wave" comedy.
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4. With vaudeville, the humor was in the joke, the gag. With "sick" comedians humor was in the persona, the onstage neurotic enacting unease
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5. "Sick" comedians only make sense in context of conformist 1950s America, where admitting unhappiness & anger was subversive.
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