“What I think really worries Burr (and I admit I share his concern) is not that comedy nerds aren’t reverent enough to stand-up traditions. It’s that they’re too reverent — and that all this reverence, this study and dissection, this niceness, threatens to ruin a form of entertainment that has stridently avoided being declawed. That comedy nerds, like overexuberant fanboys, will effectively love, nurture and respect stand-up comedy to death.”