Still think there’s like a 30% chance I dreamed that Seinfeld episode where Kramer puts the Merv Griffin Show set in his apartment
My vague impression is that stand-up comics these days try to impose a cartel-type rule against other stand-ups employing joke writers, to keep one stand-up from monopolizing the business the way Bob Hope did.
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As Mark Steyn noted, Bob Hope made his joke writers into part of his rather postmodern shtick: "I just put together my earthquake survival kit: canned food, bottled water, and a half-dozen joke writers." But now comics are supposed be all artisanal about their small batch jokes.
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