[ExI] for longer life

[William Flynn Wallace]

For some odd reason it sold like hotcakes back then but his later stuff was
never as good.  spike

Isn't that true in nearly all professions?  Young people have more
creativity.  It would be a shame if future geneticists didn't increase the
number of years we had good fluid intelligence.  We grow to maturity at age
25 and then start dying.

In my limited experience with comedy clubs, I've noticed that people will
laugh at damn near anything if someone else laughs.  (there is a word for
loading the audience with people who try to prime the audience to laugh but
I can't remember it).   Sometimes we laugh at the person who tells the joke
because he thinks it's so funny and we don't - we are laughing at him.

Pinky Lee and Soupy Sales I saw on children's shows - you would not have
been old enough at the time. bill w

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 8:18 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
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> What?  Spike - can't stand silliness?
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> True it is puzzling.  There are multiple brands of silliness.  Consider
> what Steve Martin was doing in the 70s and compare with his later comedy.
> For some odd reason it sold like hotcakes back then but his later stuff was
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> >…I'll bet you also didn't like Soupy Sales and Pinky Lee…
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> My apologies Billw, I don’t know of either of them.
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> >…I'll also bet that you love Jonathan Winters, who could be pretty silly
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> I really did like his stuff, but I didn’t know of him much until he and
> Robin Williams were bouncing off of each other on Mork and Mindy.  I
> thought that was terrific comedy, and a lot of it was ad lib.
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> >…  I still can't tell you why that's funny.      bill w
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> Even professional comedians will say how mysterious it is.  They write
> material, they have only a very vague general idea what will sell and what
> will die on stage.
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