I reached that point with both stand-up and almost all podcasts. Something about professional comedians just rubs me the wrong way these days.

Oh - interesting, I didn't know that. Can you think of any works that were called that earlier, off the top of your head?

Yeah, for sure. (I wrote something longer, than felt a little guilty over nitpicking so thoroughly what is really just one paragraph. Maybe I don't fit in here.)

They're kind of right - comedy did broaden to mean any narrative poem with a happy ending for a while in the Middle Ages. (See: the Divine Comedy.) But before that, it meant just the classic definition of comedy as a play with a happy ending, so the writer's wrong to imply that poem is a more primordial meaning than…

jeez this accidentally sounded hyper-pretentious, never mind.