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Unit 1 · Chapter 5 · 11 min

Radio, TV, and the Great Laugh Track Hostage Situation

Mass media, Lenny Bruce, Carlin, the sitcom, and what happens when a machine laughs for you.

Radio removed the body. Suddenly a comedian was only voice, timing, and words — which is why radio-era comics have the cleanest joke construction in history. You cannot mug on radio. You cannot do a face. You've got rhythm and language, and if the joke isn't built right, it just sits there being silence in a box in someone's kitchen.

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