Stand-up comedians , when they’re completely out of material, resort to two basic topics: the differences between men and women, and the differences between New York and Los Angeles .

Both of these areas are weighed down with clichés and obvious jokes, so even the laziest comedian is bound to come up with a few original observations. With minimal effort, a comic can convince an audience that they’re actually hearing fresh material, when in fact the comic is just — as we say in the trade — phoning it in .

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