Observational comedy

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Observational comedy is a brand of humor based on making remarks about various facets of daily life. The style was popularized in the United States by George Carlin, Jay Leno and David Letterman in the 1970s, continued by Jerry Seinfeld in the 1990s, and is currently practiced by comedians such as Dane Cook, Patton Oswalt, Brian Regan and Carl Barron.

The humor, based on the premise of "It's funny because it's true," consists of observations made about sometimes very minor and superficial aspects of Western culture: from airline peanuts to the Jared Diet, to Aquaman's powers, to the lines at Walgreens.

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