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Making Stand-Up More Sensitive

Posted on September 13, 2017 by nwilson

Audrey Carleton writes in an Opinion piece for McGill Tribune.com (9/4/2017) that audiences and comics should be more sensitive, not less.  Carleton begins with...

Big Theories/Dramatism

Kenneth Burke’s Perspective by Incongruity

Posted on September 2, 2017 by nwilson

After Burke lays out his method of Dramatism, in his second book, Permanence and Change, Burke introduces the term, perspective by incongruity, but in the next ...

Cases and Current Events/Comics Talking Shop/Stand-Up Comedy

Lynne Parker and Comic Frames

Posted on July 20, 2017 by nwilson

In an interview with Hannah Williams of Backstage.com (7/13/2017), producer Lynne Parker says a few interesting things about stand-up and humor more generally. ...

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