Comedians, please stop adding fake laughs to comedy specials (bonus)

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Callaroga Shark Media. This one's a
short bonus episode. I just kind of

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get something off my chest. I
was just watching a comedy special I was

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excited about from a comedian. I
like a comedian. I think is an

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ascendancy. And as I'm watching it, my spidy sense started tingling about the

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crowd. Comedians, please stop sweetening
the audience. The special I just watched

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and I bailed after about seventeen minutes. The material was very strong, but

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the presentation was It reminded me of
Big Bang Theory, where everybody said something

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and there was a laugh line.
And I'm going to illustrate it for you.

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I had the AI write a really
lame comedy routine about boats. No,

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I'm not a comedian, I'm not
a performer. I don't have to

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perform jokes. But I'm going to
do this here and add in the crowd

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mix to illustrate what I'm hearing when
I watch these comedy specials. Right,

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here's a little set about boats,
but in the style of what keeps happening

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on these specials now with way too
much crowd. Okay, let's compare the

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material to the crowd. So I
tried to buy a boat, but my

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bank wouldn't float me alone. They
said my credit was underwater. I guess

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too much peer pressure. Okay,
not the strong as material, right,

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But the crowd went not it's hilarious. Jerry Hams. It was George Carlin's

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manager. I got to spend some
time with Jerry when we were putting together

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Carlin's Corner for Serious x M,
and Jerry explained to me that Carlin would

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let a set breathe, he'd come
out and do a few rat attack jokes.

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This one is an actual Carland joke, but a rat attad joke is

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something quick like did you ever notice
it when you have a hat on for

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a long time? It feels like
it's not there? Right? A bunch

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of those? Do a bunch of
those. Then he would go into a

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long sweeping arc of his main thesis. And Jerry explained, you can't just

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keep going bam bam, bam,
bam, bam bam bam, because the

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audience fatigues. And that's what happened
to me on this special that I was

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watching this evening good material, comedian, I like comedian and ascendancy, but

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to my ears, it sounded like
somebody added laughter, and if everything is

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at peak optimum laughs, then there's
nowhere to go. If you're at your

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top, there's nowhere to go.
You're already at your top. So if

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every joke is getting a massive laugh, it's very fatiguing. So comedians,

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I beseech you dial it down.
Not everything has to be at max,

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and don't have your production team at
laughs. I can hear it back in

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the morning with a normal episode