Episode 707: Her Skill Wasn’t Being Nice, Her Skill Was Being Funny

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather pay tribute to Betty White on the 100th anniversary of her birth. They watch and describe a sampling of her work from her decades-spanning career, along the way upending the theory of comedy and describing why the loss of a beloved performer affects us so deeply.

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Further Reading

• Overthinking It Podcast 622: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Ernest Dowson
• Life with Elizabeth
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• The Golden Girls