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If I’d just written ‘theater actor’ it’s just a joke. Adding a name adds verisimilitude. I’ve told the same joke with Donald Trump hiring Ron Jeremy with Anderson Cooper doing the paly by play.
is this funny if you know who John Barrymore is?
Yea, I don’t understand at all what this gains by being about a real person that was (semi-?)famous over 100 years ago.
If I’d just written ‘theater actor’ it’s just a joke. Adding a name adds verisimilitude. I’ve told the same joke with Donald Trump hiring Ron Jeremy with Anderson Cooper doing the paly by play.