"In his new #YouTube special, “Morbidly Jewish,” #RaananHershberg explains that #Germany has changed so much since #WorldWarII, you can now be imprisoned there for drawing a #swastika. “Even though they are no longer #Nazis,” he said, taking a beat, “they are kind of being Nazis about it.”

Nazi #jokes have a long tradition in #Jewish #comedy, flexible enough to include self-sabotaging Broadway musicals and stern soup salesmen. But what makes this one unusual — and gleefully perverse — is that it’s a Nazi joke about overreacting to #antisemitism. That’s a twist.

#Hershberg has become one of the most reliably #funny #standups working today, thanks to hard #punchlines without sentiment or didacticism. With Hershberg an often unreliable narrator of his own perspective, his most ambitious, often raunchy jokes lean on subtext and metaphor rather than thesis statements. His latest release captures a strain of anguish among #Jews right now."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/arts/television/is-the-golden-era-of-jewish-comedy-coming-to-an-end.html

I want to be Stewart Lee, this is why: https://youtu.be/2VLww6mmkQg?si=ECaZ3RDVzxustrWe

#comedy #standups

This month on the #BookmarkBeat 🥁 I compare standups to a good workout. Specifically how standups create mini moments of vulnerability to make it easier to be in situations where an issue is urgent and communication needs to happen more quickly.

https://bookmarkbeat.substack.com/p/bookmark-beat-ep-21

#Design #Newsletters #Agile #Standups

#Agile and #Scrum ought to have been dropped from #SoftwareEngineering by now 😒:

“Some Thoughts As I Sit Here In Another Standup”, Lloyd Atkinson (https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/some-thoughts-as-i-sit-here-in-another-standup/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557347

#Work #Charlatan #SnakeOil #MicroManagement #WOMBAT #StandUps