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Michelle Wolf and Shades of Colbert

Posted on May 1, 2018 by nwilson

I’ve been avidly following the aftermath of the White House Correspondents Dinner, as it’s basically where my studies jumped off [i.e. with Stephen ...

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

Alex Stypula on Pushing the Envelope

Posted on September 14, 2017 by nwilson

It’s a common theme in discussions of comedy, which I haven’t yet gotten around to addressing here: Is comedy all about pushing the envelope, and at...

Cases and Current Events/Comics in the News/Stand Up Comedy

Megan Garber on Comics as Public Intellectuals

Posted on August 4, 2017 by nwilson

This one’s an oldie, but I came across it in some research recently, and it needs to be in this discussion. Megan Garber, in an article for The Atlantic (...

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Mo Amer’s Honest Truths

Posted on August 1, 2017 by nwilson

Corinna Burford of Paste Magazine (7/21/2017), talks about the recent surge in Mo Amer’s career, about his recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen...

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

Misch on Personas, Truth and Ethics

Posted on July 14, 2017 by nwilson

In his article for Splitsider.com (7/6/2017), comic, critic, writer and teacher David Misch notes that there is an idea (held by at least one professional criti...

Humor Theories/Stand Up Comedy/Theories About Comics

Narrators: Unreliable and Discordant

Posted on June 10, 2017 by nwilson

The idea that we can influence people with words (rhetoric) depends on the notion that the speaker is who they appear to be and mean what they say.  Scholars ca...

Doing Stand-up/Stand Up Comedy

How to Write a Joke

Posted on June 8, 2017 by nwilson

Everything starts with the jokes.  Until you’ve got material that consistently gets laughs, you’ve got nothing – and you need at least five mi...

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