Joel McHale Wants to Make Trump Laugh
In an interview with Joel McHale of foxnews.com (7/25/2017), Blanche Johnson talks about “making an audience laugh” in a different way: BJ: Joel McHale&#...
Month: August 2017
Megan Garber on Comics as Public Intellectuals
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 (...
Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. b. 6. The Techniques of Conceptual Jokes – Problems
This is the thirteenth of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes [Witz] and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the re...
101 Posts (Oops! 102!)
Today’s posts make over 100 that I’ve put up in my blog, The Critical Comic, and all in less that 2 months! It’s been frantic, frustrating, cr...
Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. b. 5. The Techniques of Conceptual Jokes – Indirect Representation
This is the twelfth of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes [Witz] and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the react...
Hari Kondabolu’s Dual Goal
Comic Hari Kondabolu has bachelor’s degree in Comparative Politics and master’s degree in Human Rights, so he probably knows a thing or two about theories of pu...
Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. b. 4. The Techniques of Conceptual Jokes – Unification
This is the eleventh of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes [Witz] and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the reac...
Tiffany Haddish Stepped in It Again.
The issue In an interview with Los Angeles Times reporter, Tre’Vell Anderson (7/20/2017), she said Bill Cosby was one of the comedians who inspired her, a...
Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. b. 3. The Techniques of Conceptual Jokes – Faulty Reasoning
This is the tenth of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes [Witz] and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the reactio...
Mo Amer’s Honest Truths
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...