text:  Ian Carmel's new memoir is called The T-Shirt Swim Club, Stories of Being Fat in a World of Thin People. It chronicles how he used comedy to cope growing up and how now that he's lost hundreds of pounds, the things he's discovered about himself and the world. For one, people treat him better, he says, which also means he's figuring out how to be funny without the fat jokes. And later, TV critic David Bianculli reviews season three of The Bear. First News.