[Link] The Rise and Fall of the Comedian Who Revolutionized Stand-Up

Read: 6/12/2021 slate.com

Mort Sahl, who died on Tuesday at 94, may be unknown to most people who are younger than half that age, but in his prime in the 1950s, he sparked a revolution in stand-up comedy that persists to this day.

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[Link] Advertising Is Content: Taskmaster Edition

Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

Many, many years ago on Techdirt, I wrote a lot about the idea of advertising being content (and content being advertising).

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[Link] ‘I had to watch it with my therapist’: when real-life horrors get turned into TV

Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The dark new drama The Shrink Next Door tells an almost unbelievable story. Almost, of course, because it actually happened.

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[Link] ‘Ted Lasso’ Makes Me Want to Be a Better Person

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Most days, I think I’m a decent-enough person.

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