- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Cross-Section
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.
- Coffee Shops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were in coffee shops instead of bars. I'd get up and go, 'Hi, I'm 17, and I have jokes about matriculation!' At the time I was like, 'Why is no one laughing?'
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On Harvard Time,' which was a student TV show trying to be 'The Daily Show.' And I wrote a humor column for 'The Crimson' starting my sophomore year.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you as you're reading it. I think of that as my function.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.
- Millennials
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millennials don't go to rallies.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that Millennials don't believe some things are serious. We'll make 'It Gets Better' videos or perform comedy for disaster relief. But sum up our lives in a phrase? The Importance of Never Being Too Earnest.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles to touch the hem of Jon Stewart's robe.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020