3. The "sick" or New Wave comedians of era (Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Phyllis Diller) were defined against earlier vaudeville aesthetic.
13. "I'm not going to pretend that I was a big fan of Rivers' comedy, apart from her early days."
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14. "The jittery rhythms of her joke machinery were too blatant and monotonous--her punchline machinery was almost purely telegraphic..."
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15. "Borscht-belting, with little of the multistrand weave and mulling pauses that you got from a Richard Pryor or George Carlin monologue."
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