I went to a comedy club in Austin and half the set was dead baby jokes, and the room ate it up

Nancy Smith · 2026-10-18T17:10:04.819146+00:00

I figured those were long gone, like a thing people just agreed to bury in 2012. But the guy did a solid 4 minutes on it in a room of maybe 60 people and only two of us were clearly uncomfortable. So is that stuff actually cycling back, or did I just walk into the one room in Texas where it never left?

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