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Ok, not really a fan, not since the late-70s or so, grew tired (and often sick) of her a long while back, but this stand-up special on Showtime is freakin' nuts. The lady is 79, and is displaying standup skills that are insanely good, with an energy that should be the envy of comics half (or less, even) her age. She had me laughing out loud at shit I knew was wrong, but hell, wrong, but funny anyway. One can argue content, perhaps, but skills? Don't even think about arguing skills.Besides, if there's no small degree of truth to the maxim that standup is an inherently and/or latently violent act, then...embrace the violence. Dice Clay was never even remotely funny to me, ever. His was just mean. Joan Rivers used to be funny, then stopped being funny as she turned mean, and then, finally, irrelevant and boorishly needy. But whatever happened the night that this was recorded was pretty amazing, because she's zooming. Fully stipulated that comedic tastes are about the most subjective tastes of all (and I'm just a fan/admirer/casual student of the art, not a professional practitioner, not even). But if skills themself are quantifiable, then..this is an amazing performance just for skills.