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is this funny if you know who John Barrymore is?
Yea, I don’t understand at all what this gains by being about a real person that was (semi-?)famous over 100 years ago.
If I’d just written ‘theater actor’ it’s just a joke. Adding a name adds verisimilitude. I’ve told the same joke with Donald Trump hiring Ron Jeremy with Anderson Cooper doing the paly by play.