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Month: June 2017

Humor Theories/Stand Up Comedy/Theories About Comics

Political, Social and Entertainment Comedians

Posted on June 13, 2017 by nwilson

Comic and internet sensation Kenny Sebastian, in an interview with Letty Mariam Abraham of Mid-day (5/14/2017) about his recent special, Don’t Be That Guy...

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

Bill Maher’s On-Air Apologies

Posted on June 12, 2017 by nwilson

I make my Advanced Public Speaking students write and give a speech of apology for a public figure, so when we’re talking about comics giving apologies, w...

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

A Note About Dyson’s Interview with Maher

Posted on June 12, 2017 by nwilson

Dyson’s points I want to give some ink to Michael Eric Dyson, who did a fairly good job of holding Maher’s feet to the fire in their interview, desp...

Ramblings

Relief Theory update

Posted on June 12, 2017 by nwilson

I’ll post updates as I encounter new comedy, theories or writing/blogs about either.  So here’s one: Sarah Silverman references relief/release theor...

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

Bill Maher On What Comics Do

Posted on June 11, 2017 by nwilson

I make my Advanced Public Speaking students write and give a speech of apology for a public figure, so when we’re talking about comics giving apologies, w...

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...

Humor Theories/Stand Up Comedy/Theories About Comics

Comic Intent

Posted on June 10, 2017 by nwilson

You hear it time and time again, from both comics and scholars: in stand-up comedy the only goal is laughter by any means available (Borns; Gilbert; Horowitz; L...

Humor Theories/Stand Up Comedy/Theories About Spaces

Spatial Theories

Posted on June 10, 2017 by nwilson

The basic idea of a space for ideas comes from Aristotle, who argues that we organize ideas spatially in our mind.  We group like with like into genres, topics,...

Doing Stand-up/Stand Up Comedy

Why You Should Ask an Academic

Posted on June 10, 2017 by nwilson

An article published last July in the Chronicle of Higher Education reappeared in my FB news feed the other day, and it says basically what I’ve been on a...

Doing Stand-up/Stand Up Comedy

Getting on Stage

Posted on June 9, 2017 by nwilson

Perhaps the hardest part of stand-up for many people is actually getting on stage.  Seinfeld’s joke about fear of public speaking versus death is legendar...

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