What's remarkable is that Louis hasn't reached this vaunted position by exhibiting the outsider cool of most era-defining comics – Bruce, Pryor, Hicks, Rock – but by embracing one of the least cool personas imaginable: the overweight, middle-aged single father.
"It is difficult, because in most eras you have more than one significant style.
The 1980s had Mike Schmidt, George Brett and Wade Boggs, but in most eras it is obvious who the best third sacker in the game is.
The great writers of his era (or indeed of most eras) are not usually aristocrats, who have no need to earn a living by their pens.
MOST eras have their symbolic murders: crimes that are not only terrible but seem also to reflect the nation's pathologies.
Most eras look innocent in a rearview mirror, but nowadays, especially, those bad old days of plutocrats, ladies who lunch and junk-bond buccaneers look almost sweet.
This week's most era-defining new films, defined by this era's weakest film writers.
Their magnum opus, the classic Decline of Video Gaming series, might be the most era-defining Newgrounds cartoon of all time.
As a writer, Brian Helgeland has been responsible for some of the most era-defining crime fiction ("L.A. Confidential"), while, as a director, he's told of some the greatest battles against injustice ("42").
The difference in this decline among the three eras (P = 0.006 for years-by-era) indicates that the rate of decline is less steep, showing notable improvement in durability in the most recent era.
