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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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29. Back in the mid-90's I saw a woman who was a late night tv producer

Fri Jul 24, 2015, 08:50 PM

Jul 2015

She was the cheapest date ever because we went to comedy clubs and concerts several nights a week and she had her network AMEX card in hand at all times. Basically she was to find up and coming comedians, raconteurs and musical acts in L.A.

Eventually she had to move to New York and that was it.

I think back to some of the people we saw, some of them are now or were at one point pretty big names who's standup routines in the 90's would today have them ostracized and banished for all time if someone happened to record some of them.

And indeed, some of them were extremely offensive, but some of them were both extremely offensive and absolutely hilarious.

One that stands out was a female comedian who in character as an awkward virgin (with very limited knowledge of male anatomy) unwound a long-winded plot to "fuck the gay" out of her roommate. It was hilarious, but if anyone recorded that and sends it to Gawker I suppose everyone attached to her will have to publicly disown her and she will have to go cry in shame on the Today Show.

Humor should have some leeway to push boundaries, but those boundaries shouldn't be set by the most hyper-sensitive of people.

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