bedstuy
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« on: September 04, 2014, 04:51:32 PM » |
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Joan Rivers was great. Young white men might not understand her humor because she's from a different time, place and perspective. Her humor came from being a Jewish woman in the 1950s, from the type of humor where you laugh because it hurts too much to cry. It comes from realizing how absurd, capricious and evil life can be, but rising above it with a joke. That's the great Jewish tradition of comedy and the comedy of the oppressed. And, for what it's worth, her humor was just as often about making fun of Joan Rivers as anyone else. It's that everyone is ridiculous and somewhat pathetic, not that she attacked people to be mean.
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