On Honest Personas, Signifieds, Truths and Spaces
Mo’Nique, in an interview with Blake Hannon of Kentucky.com (7/20/2017), had a few things to say about her past and present on-stage persona that are rele...
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Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. b. 1. The Techniques of Conceptual Jokes – Displacement
This is the eighth of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes [Witz] and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the reacti...
Update to Persona
Added the following bit from an interview with John Sheehan. John Sheehan expresses the idea that who he is onstage is a heightened or more extreme version of h...
Rory Scovel on Connecting to Smart Audiences
In an interview with Oxford American’s Jacob Rosenberg (7/18/2017), Rory Scovel talks a bit about his relation to the audience in some ways that are impor...
Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. a. 4. The Techniques of Verbal Jokes – Final Thoughts
This is the seventh of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes [Witz] and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the react...
Jim Breuer and Ali Lerman are Insensitive
I’ll be honest again: I’m not a Jim Breuer fan. He’s one of those comics who just rubs me the wrong way. A big part of it is his hyper-masculi...
Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. a. 3. The Techniques of Verbal Jokes – Double Meaning
This is the sixth of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes [Witz] and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the reactio...
Kishori Sud on Free Speech in Indian Stand-Up
Kishori Sud of IANS, asked a number of Indian comics about free speech (7/16/2017), and their answers highlight an issue that pops up a lot, even here in Americ...
Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. II. a. 2. The Techniques of Verbal Jokes – Multiple Uses
This is the fifth of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes [Witz] and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the reactio...
Aditi Mittal on the Postmodern, Stand-up’s Power and Free Speech
Some folks would say, don’t you study American stand-up? What’s with the stuff on these Indian and Pan-Asian comics? Stay in your lane! Well, I just...