To prepare, they sit in a semi-circle and Firestone gives them prompts to get them started. What's the worst thing to have on a T-shirt, she asks? "Uhhh… cream cheese!" someone says. Another reply is too R-rated to print here, but it includes a dirty word that becomes even funnier when a few people in the room don't hear it the first time and keep asking for it to be repeated, and if you think they didn't see the joke in that, you're not giving them enough credit. Firestone then asks, what do you prefer: Food jokes or sex jokes? The results are evenly split! (There are no pearl-clutchers here.) Someone offers up a food joke that involves a pun: "Two peanuts were in a bar, one was assaulted/a salted." "Two penises?" someone repeats, confused. "Peanuts! Peanuts!" comes the answer. Throughout the special, Firestone sits down with each of her students individually to get a little of their life story and talk about why they wanted to take a comedy class. These are delightful segments precisely because she's so charmed by each person with whom she's talking. One man tells her that before he retired, his job was to interview people applying for SSI benefits and he talks about a woman who came in and told him she worked at Whole Foods. "And I said, 'I used to go to the one on Houston Street, I love their bread pudding,' and she said, 'Oh my God, I made their bread pudding!' Thirty-five years of work and that's the most exciting thing that ever happened to me," he says with an amused shrug. What's missing from the special are Firestone's own thoughts and observations. What compelled her to teach this class? Has it been a different experience than she anticipated? Does it affect how she thinks or approaches her own stand-up material? She recently told the New York Post that at some point she came to the realization that she wasn't teaching the group how to do stand-up so much as "trying to make them feel comfortable enough with their own weird thoughts and what they think is the honest truth in this world." I wish the special had included this kind of observation because she clearly got as much out of it as the people in her class.