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Langston Kerman and John Mulaney Made Stand-Up’s Love Jones

The comedians talk shop about their new collaboration and why Kerman is basically Tim Walz.

In it, he acts out the student’s thought process before she decided, apropos of nothing, to raise her hand mid-lesson to tell him that he could never be a male model because of his “adult acne.” “This motherfucker got too much confidence,” he impersonates her with pitch-perfect teen-girl sass. Broadly, it uses big questions about the joys and responsibilities of fatherhood as an excuse for gratifying tangents about everything from “people who draw Lion King characters with human titties” to the time his mother married a down-on-his-luck sports mascot. Legend has it that it’s where slam poetry was invented by this dude Marc Smith, who basically was tricking a bunch of drunks at a bar to rate his poems from one to ten in order to make them pay attention.

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