Ideal Age For A Comedian's Persona Analysis

In the article titled “What Is the Ideal Age for a Comedian’s Persona”, Jesse David Fox touches on how ages affects a comedians jokes and how the audience perceives it. Fox primarily begins by giving an example of Marc Maron, a comedian in his early 50’s who cracks joke about death and dying which his audience find comical since he drags it out throughout the special. The audience also resonates with it since he is older and puts a light-hearted spin on a topic more dark. Fox goes onto explain that the context of a joke greatly influences the audience's reaction towards it describing it as not existing, “in a vacuum”. To back this up, he provides example of comedians who didn't become big until they were in their 60’s due to them not being