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Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ (variety.com)
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[–] [email protected] 123 points 8 months ago (35 children)

I hate this relatively new idea that comedy has to be mean. If you have to rile the audience to be funny, you're not funny.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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I just saw this posted on lemmy a while back. It's so good. lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

For anyone who likes this, his entire show is brilliant and you can buy it for a fairly reasonable price directly from his homepage:

https://www.jamesacaster.com/cold-lasagne/

Honestly one of if not the best Stand-Up routine I've seen in the past ten years

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