/lit/ - Literature

>>14135661
imagine the smell

>>14135661
you can't go much lower

>>14135661
>Larry Davis's hair was once even worse than it is now
>worse than even Costanza's
yikes

>>14135661
God I love Larry. Curb is amazing. Jerry is meh

>>14135661
add woody Allen and Epstein and Weinstein and you have the faces of the goyim Hollywood pedophile ring

Absolutely. It's all about control, clarity, concision, pacing, rhythm, tension, and release. Often the difference between an author that's really only incidentally funny and an author who is genuinely funny comes down to their control over pacing.

It's damn hard, even if you're decently funny in your everyday life, translating it to paper is difficult. One could honestly learn a decent amount of rhythm from reading Seinfeld's book "Seinlanguage."

>>14135719

Based take. Good post anon.

>>14135719
What about PG Wodehouse?

>>14135779
What about him? He's great. I wasn't trying to say that you could learn about this stuff *only* from Seinfeld, he's just in OP's pic.
You'd no doubt learn even more from Wodehouse, Amis, Roth, Toole, any of the great comic writers, even Beckett, Kafka, Pynchon, whoever. I'm just trying to say that even more popular or "low brow" comedy has a lot of merit. I mean DFW seemed to have learned a lot about writing comedy from the Simpsons. Hell, Woody Allen's screenplays read a lot like Saki.

It is the highest form of art.

Gilbert and Sullivan are finer artists than Shakespeare.

>>14135661
Comedy is the language of nihilism. And when you really think about it there is nothing funny about the complete annihilation of human values. The forced laugh is a forfeiting of the soul, and the honest laugh is the sound of despair at having forfeited our dignity

>>14135847
*slips on banana peel*

>>14135847
Cringe

>>14135847

OK Boomer

>>14135844
>Gilbert and Sullivan
are they writers?

Who else is funny other than wodehouse, /lit/? How about Douglas Adams?

>>14135847

>>14136110
Gilbert wrote the drama, Sullivan wrote the music.

>>14136131
>But they didn't write comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1dy44jV8EM

>>14135847
I must admit, I laughed

>>14136118
Everyone here
>>14135810
+ Wilde, Sedaris, Heller, Twain, Sterne, Waugh, Zadie Smith and Don Delilo are pretty fuckin funny, Flann O'Brien, Twain, David Lodge,

>>14136329
did u roast wodeohouse or adams

>>14136329
>Zadie Smith

>>14136581
White Teeth is a funny book. I don't see the problem.

Of course. Every Cum Town episode is an elaborate philosophic parable (though casual listeners may only pick up on parts, causing them to think it's a comedy podcast with brief philosophic discussion instead of a work of philosophy itself). The "Cool Adam" bit was a particularly compelling extension of Lacan's theory of anxiety and the self.

>>14135847
honk honk

>>14135716
Goyim means "non jews". You're new at this, huh.

>>14135689
Jerry is great. He's not as good of a writer as larry and he can't act but he's a great comedian. And obviously we have Jerry to thank for giving us Larry. I really don't think Larry would have made it without Jerry. He would have been some really great under the radar dude until his death.

>>14135664
It probably smells like pungent kosher food in there.

>>14135847
It is 120 years past your bedtime Nietzsche.

>>14136787
If it smells like a delicatessen then I'm fine.

>>14136762
true people seem to loathe jerry these days

>>14136733
Yes they’re not real Jews, their fake Jews, your a Jew aren’t you? Huh, these guys aren’t ‘ur people’

>>14135847

Godless pseud, a hearty laugh with good friends is one of the highest forms of mirth

>>14136762

Larry is a great writer (but an awful stand-up comedian) and both, Seinfeld and Curb... are pretty much the best in TV comedy.

>>14135716
Holy fuck you stormniggers get more retarded by the minute.

>Doesn't even know what goy means

>>14137355
>their
>your

Master baiter.

>>14137823
Hes a good standup

https://youtu.be/6w8KL-2ou7Y