8:46 (pt. 1)
[From Nathan: All of these posts are pretty unrefined, I hope you understand.] The Show Recently, YouTube released 8:46, a 27-minute clip from Dave Chappelle &a...
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Jesse David Fox on the Age of a Persona
I talk a lot on here about a comic’s persona, how they create it, whether or not it differs from their person/self, if so, in what ways, and whether or no...
Chattoo, The Laughter Effect III. D. 3. Comedy Formats: Stand-Up Impacts
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...
Elahe Izadi on the Current Stand-Up Comedy Boom
Elahe Izadi, in an article for the Washington Post (7/13/2017), talks about the current “stand-up comedy boom.” Never before has so much original ma...
Update: James Davis’ Interview with StarTribune.com
On reading the interview, I made some updates to Intentionality – where I talk about the idea that comics are first and foremost trying to get a laugh on-...