Made my day, Barry.
Truly great!
And nearby are numerous other clips I shall now sample.
best from Max
Quoting Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
> Max,
>
> Here's the link to the most precisely edited version of Jerry Seinfeld's
> "sucks<>great" routine. Still "great" the second time around.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fgowvzfQ9U&feature=related
>
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:20:17 +1000, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >On 8/04/11 6:05 AM, "Barry Alpert" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I
> >> immediately thought of Jerry Seinfeld's stunning recent stand-up comedy
> >> routine in which he argues that the terms of evaluative criticism have
> shrunk
> >> to the dichotomy, "It's great"<>"It sucks".
> >
> >When teaching, I sometimes tried to elicit from my students just what their
> >vocabulary of evaluation consisted of, as something we might build on.
> >Me: this line of Keats, now, is it aaah yummy? Or do you reckon its yucky?
> >These terms figured in their vocab all right, but applying it to language
> >tended to stymie them.
> >
> >Max
> >
> >I wonder if the Seinfeld routine is on the internet yet...?
>
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