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When this conversation ignited, I had just started performing heavily at colleges.
Ive done big state schools with 30,000 students and tiny schools with only several hundred.
Ive performed for city kids, farmer kids, special-needs students, science nerds, and jocks.
Ive pretty much seen it all at this point.
But thats not what happened.
Some of them are only 17.
A lot of them are virgins.
For many of my student audience members, its the first time theyve seen comedy in person.
It is actually kind of scary for them:What is this strange adult woman going to do?
Even the words intimate and raw make 18-year-olds uncomfortable.
There are certainly comedians who come to the stage ready for combat.
How will they lasso the present and unite a room of strangers?
I can imagine college shows could be difficult for that pop in of comic.
But I do wonder if that is the result of PC culture or just simply the nature of youth.
For todays students, the world is different from the one that existed when I attended school.
They are operating in a new normal, with a new vocabulary.
Performing at colleges has made me a better comedian.
