Book idea: the influence of Harvard on American comedy: Robert Benchley, Gluyas Williams, Harvard Lampoon, the Simpsons, @petridishes
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Difference between Cambridge and New Haven.
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Funnier accents
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Harvard Lampoon?
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Yale realized they couldn't top William F. Buckley as their biggest joke.
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Boston is funnier than New Haven?
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Harvard is more relaxed, socially secure. Aristocratic ease. More poets also.
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Calvin Trillin and Garry Trudeau crush your Harvard list entirely.
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I think the cultural emphases are different at the two schools. Yale has a strong improv tradition, but the Yale School of Drama is probably a bigger campus influence. A lot of the writing energy also goes to the New Journal and YDN.
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That makes sense. And of course existence & fame of Harvard Lampoon probably attracts funny people to HU.
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Clustering effects? In college a lot of us are looking around for models of success. If you're somewhere that people gain status from humor, then you aspire to that status.
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In my college a lot of us tried out for the improv team, because it got great attendance and was well thought of, compared to some of the other theater going on. Funny to think of improv having status, but in that weird world it did.
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