NY inside humour

S04E11 The ContestliveNov 23, 1992, 11:56 AM ET5 days later2 posts by 2 posters
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Viewers discuss New York-specific humor in "The Contest," debating whether references like apartment building buzzers are universally funny or require local knowledge.

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Don Meyer

Hmm. The chinese food delivery joke was funny, but I _was_ unaware of the humorous volume of delivery people that you mention! :-)

Not sure that adds to the joke for me, although it does sound as though just showing this scene (or a Jerry-George-Elaine dialogue about it) would be funny in and of itself.

Perhaps we need to class bits as "NY-Specific, Big-City-Specific and Universal". Sidenote: since someone in another thread didn't know that the last episode was about masturbation, perhaps Universal is not truly possible... ;-)

Don

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Keith GlassonDon Meyer
:
:
	I've never been to NY and never had to "buzz" anywhere to
	get in to a place, but it seemed fairly obvious to me.
	Sheesh, I must be a real brain, figuring this stuff out
	all by myself.

-keith