Skip to content
The Critical Comic
A Critical Discussion of Stand-Up Comedy.
  • Home
  • About Us
  • What Am I Doing with Stand Up? (The Academic Stuff)

Tag: truths

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

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

Dawn Picken on Comedy and Laughter

Posted on July 25, 2017 by nwilson

Dawn Picken of the New Zealand Herald (7/21/2017), expresses a few common and scientific interpretations of comedy and laughter, but she also expresses a better...

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

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...

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...

Recent Posts

  • Morgan Rice’s A March of Kings
  • Jasper T. Scott’s Excelsior
  • Morgan Rice’s A Quest of Heroes.
  • Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale.
  • Kenneth Burke’s Representative Anecdote & the Cult of the Kill

Recent Comments

  • nwilson on Bill Maher’s “N-Bomb” Wasn’t a Big Deal, But Neither Was It Funny.
  • Robert Gass on Bill Maher’s “N-Bomb” Wasn’t a Big Deal, But Neither Was It Funny.

Archives

  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017

Categories

  • Big Theories
    • Argumentation Theory
    • Dramatism
    • Postmodern Theory
  • Books
    • Fantasy
    • Scifi
  • Gaming
    • Tabletop
      • Tabletop Role Playing Games
  • Movies
    • Older Movies
  • Ramblings
  • Stand Up Comedy
    • Cases and Current Events
      • Comics in the News
      • Comics Talking Shop
    • Doing Stand-up
    • Humor Theories
      • Theories About Audiences
      • Theories About Comics
      • Theories About Funny
      • Theories About Jokes
      • Theories About Laughter
      • Theories About Spaces
  • Television
    • Dr. Who (Reboot, 2005-)
      • Series 1
      • Series 2

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Contact us!

    © 2025 The Critical Comic
    Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy