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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      Watching the new Seinfeld special. He’s not even trying to be contemporary. It’s a 90s throwback set. Comes off as trying to own being self-aware about being stuck in the past but somehow still comes across as out of touch. Just 5 min in though. Maybe it gets better.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      He’s trying phone jokes now... kinda flat

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      ok this is getting cringe

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      Ok one good riff here on when did texting start

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      Back to cringe. I think he’s too rich and stable to be a standup anymore now. You can’t fake being contemporary. Even if you’re trying to fake being a throwback retro act you have to do it in a 2020 way and if you’re too rich you’re too insulated.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      This is sad. Why do this set at all? The comedians in cars thing was mildly ok. Watched a few episodes.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      But he’s 66...doesn’t look it though. He’s aged really well. I guess it’s fine for a young-old man to want a swan song. I only watched the last Seinfeld season live, since I came to the US in 1997. Watched all the rest in reruns by 2000 I think. Oddly the show is still fresh

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      I think the show was much better than his standup and his 3 costars were all funnier and better actors. His great contribution was playing straight man to 3 others at once.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      I guess he was never really messed up and miserable enough to be a great comic, but talented enough to be a reliably good one for a long and anchor an ensemble. But once he got rich enough, there was no reason to play foil to others.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      Ok done. That was disappointing.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 18
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      I guess I do empathize with one clear impulse in his career which is to just quit bothering to grow at some point and coast. I’m pretty sure that’s what I’d do too if I could afford to past a point.

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        1. allen‏ @allenf32 May 18
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          watch the ray romano one at some point if you haven't. It seemed to be going for exactly what you were hoping would work here, and I thought it was excellent. it might restore some faith.

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        2. Adam David Long‏ @adamdavidlong May 19
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          As I understand it, the original idea for the show was NOT the legendary "a show about nothing." In fact, the original idea for the show, as pitched by him and Larry David, was that is was a show answering the question "where does a standup comedian get their ideas."

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        3. Adam David Long‏ @adamdavidlong May 19
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          for the first few episodes, the episode would show something in his life, and then show a standup routine that was supposed to be inspired by the events in the main part of the episode.

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          Do you have a list of your fave comedians?

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