Is the Actor a Cult Leader?--Seinfeld's "Understudy," Nietzsche's Overman
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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Episode description
The Tossers obsess over the final scene of a Seinfeld episode (Season 6, Episode 23), where an actor bombs on stage and begs the audience to let her start again. Why, we wonder, is it impossible for her to start again? Why is the audience so cruel? Maybe she can start again? Along the way, we discuss Shakespeare, Hannah Gadsby, Aristotle's Catharsis, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, and Nietzsche's fear that actors now rule the world.
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