PS/ If there's one thing Carlin, Murphy, Silverman, Burnett, Williams, Chappelle, Rock, Pryor, Hicks, Schumer, Martin and all other great comedians have understood, it's that they're *working artists*—anyone who calls comedy just a "simple pleasure" probably isn't worth watching.

PS2/ I teach Watts, Burnham, Silverman and other stand-ups in college courses because they're not just funny—their art is conceptually tight, paradigmatically important. I don't teach Catskills wah-wah milquetoast squeegee run-off for college credit. If that upsets J.L., too bad.

PS3/ BTW, the *humor* in comedy is 100% subjective—so if you love J.L. and not Cooper, or vice versa, or both or neither, more power to you! The waters J.L. *stupidly* waded into had to do with degree of difficulty, cultural significance, and conceptual art. Bad move on his part.