Kansas City Gen Z Comic Against Being Nice

Credit to KCUR . . . 

Kansas City's top ranking progressive media outlet is doing their very best to prove that progressive Gen Z is just as humorless as so many have imagined. 

To be fair . . .

Most American comedy has become a parade of powerless-mini-dictators screeching in order to garner the approval of carefully segmented audiences predetermined by corporate algorithms. 

But let's not get bogged down in hateration . . . The Internets has MILLIONS of options for every comedy preference . . . Lately we've been enjoying some skits & standup from Pete Holmes who has a great bit about God Vs. Nothing . . . Apropos for this blog dedicated to argumentation. 

Still, we stand by our main assertion that most local comics are JUSTIFIABLY ignored.

And today public radio provides a nearby example . . .

The comedic writer, who grew up near Milwaukee and now lives in Kansas City, Kansas, is as much an expert on the topic as you could hope to find — she wrote a book about her own niceness in 2022, called “She’s Nice Though.”

As the national spotlight brightens over Kansas City, attracting more eyes and visitors, she also thinks about living in a place some might describe with that lackluster word — nice. It comes with benefits and pitfalls.

“I don't know what we'll do if we become a tourist city,” Mercado says. “I feel like probably more of the same. Just be more Midwesternly nice to more people.”

Often, being nice has a lot to do with “absorbing discomfort for the sake of other people's comfort,” Mercado says.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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