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John Early Breaks His Silence on His Joke About Us


Vulture got name-checked in his 2023 HBO special. We finally asked him what gives.

Over a bed of keyboard playing with the chords of Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush,” Early does something that’s less stand-up and more a mixture of a rant, whine, and free association. The focus is on his generation, whom he says didn’t learn anything from school but how to be “total badasses” and “vamp.” For 20 minutes, Early voices a series of complaints about how his fellow millennials talk, dance, and use the internet. Also it fits into the part in this section about your Grindr grid and the broken idea of community that ignores that actual desire of a world where you know people who are close to you.

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