The first time I heard the word “circumcision,” it was a joke. And that’s how it stayed—for years. In this episode, I revisit the golden age of American sitcoms to examine how comedy shaped cultural consensus. From Seinfeld to Friends, Sex and the City to Arrested Development, we trace how ridicule replaced reckoning, and how a laugh track helped turn silence into punchlines.

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