People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.
Nick ThuneThere's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.
Nick ThuneI don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.
Nick ThunePeople can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.
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