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Chattoo, The Laughter Effect II. B. How Comedy Works: Creating Feelings and Breaking Down Complexity

Posted on August 8, 2017 by nwilson

In May (2017), Caty Borum Chattoo, co-director of the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University and a comedy fan, released “The Laughter E...

Humor Theories/Stand-Up Comedy/Theories About Funny

Chattoo, The Laughter Effect II. A. How Comedy Works, Influence Begins and Attracting Attention

Posted on August 7, 2017 by nwilson

In May (2017), Caty Borum Chattoo, co-director of the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University and a comedy fan, released “The Laughter E...

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

Salma Hindy Wants to Humanize Muslims

Posted on August 7, 2017 by nwilson

It’s good to see comics trying to do something with their power.  One such is Salma Hindy.  Steven Zhou interviews Salma Hindy for The Globe and Mail (7/2...

Humor Theories/Stand-Up Comedy/Theories About Funny

Chattoo, The Laughter Effect I. B. The Why and Potential of Comedy

Posted on August 6, 2017 by nwilson

In May (2017), Caty Borum Chattoo, co-director of the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University and a comedy fan, released “The Laughter E...

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

Dustin Wood’s Truth

Posted on August 6, 2017 by nwilson

Danielle Jester interviewed budding comic Dustin Wood for siskiyoudaily.com (7/27/2017), he begins with a discussion of himself as a type of truth teller, at le...

Humor Theories/Stand-Up Comedy/Theories About Funny

Chattoo, The Laughter Effect I. A. Introduction, Preview, Promise and Paradox

Posted on August 5, 2017 by nwilson

In May (2017), Caty Borum Chattoo, co-director of the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University and a comedy fan, released “The Laughter E...

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

Joel McHale Wants to Make Trump Laugh

Posted on August 5, 2017 by nwilson

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&#...

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 (...

Humor Theories/Stand-Up Comedy/Theories About Funny/Theories About Jokes

Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. b. 6. The Techniques of Conceptual Jokes – Problems

Posted on August 4, 2017 by nwilson

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...

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101 Posts (Oops! 102!)

Posted on August 3, 2017 by nwilson

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...

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