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Mike Birbiglia on Getting Personal

Posted on July 22, 2017 by nwilson

Mike Birbiglia spoke to Bill Brownstein of the Montreal Gazette (7/14/2017) about getting personal. Getting personal is crucial in comedy. I feel that we’re liv...

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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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Elahe Izadi on the Benefits and Evils of Technology

Posted on July 19, 2017 by nwilson

When I teach courses on media theory, I like to point out that whenever a new technology appears, there are some that hail it as the thing that will finally spa...

Comics Talking Shop

Elahe Izadi on the Current Stand-Up Comedy Boom

Posted on July 18, 2017 by nwilson

Elahe Izadi, in an article for the Washington Post (7/13/2017), talks about the current “stand-up comedy boom.” Never before has so much original ma...

Humor Theories/Stand Up Comedy/Theories About Jokes

I’m Joking/Just Kidding

Posted on July 1, 2017 by nwilson

A topic on my list of things to cover in this blog are statements of “just kidding” and “I’m joking.”  I started on this in my ana...

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Tragedy Plus Time

Posted on July 1, 2017 by nwilson

In my analysis of Mike Birbiglia’s Thank God for Jokes, I included this blurb about how, in an off-hand way, Birbiglia mentions that “Comedy equals ...

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Carnival II: Real Action

Posted on July 1, 2017 by nwilson

In a previous post, I discussed a common, simple model of carnivalesque that was based off the idea of a Roman Catholic celebration of Carnival prior to Lent wr...

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Mike Birbiglia on Jokes

Posted on June 29, 2017 by nwilson

I’ve been a fan of Mike Birbiglia for a long time now, bought his merchandise, watched all his specials and both his movies (Sleepwalk with Me, 2012 and D...

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