What Do Water Bottles Teach Us About Comedy?
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Jason Zinoman
· nytimes.com
A solitary figure, a microphone and a stool. Those are the primary images of stand-up comedy — as reliable and ubiquitous as a book’s cover, spine and chapter titles.
But there is another element in the iconography, and it’s the most revealing: The water bottle.
