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America This Week, September 8, 2023: "Comedy is Not Pretty"

Walter and Matt on Bill Maher, "Strikeforce Suck," and the new era of comedy as narrative-enforcement. Also, "The Lottery of Babylon," by Jorge Luis Borges

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Walter Kirn

Sep 08, 2023

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