Michelle Wolf Isn’t Trying to Change the World
But perhaps she should be. I talk a lot on this blog about what comedy can do, and my main soapbox is that it can do whatever we let it do. If comics tried to...
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D.J. Mausner on Promoting More Female Comics
In an interview for The Globe and Mail (8/1/2017), D.J. Mausner tells Giuseppe Valiante about how to helps out female comics. Role models She says that women do...
Ann Nguyen on Punching Down
Blame Ann Nguyen of Elle.com (7/24/2017) for introducing me to Caty Borum Chattoo’s The Laughter Effect. In her article, she says a few things about this ...
Chattoo, The Laughter Effect III. A. 3. Comedy Formats: Satirical News Cautions
Still talking about Caty Borum Chattoo, co-director of the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University and a comedy fan’s, May (2017) releas...
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...
Wise Fools Speaking Truth to Power
When talking about stand-up comedy, a lot of attention is given to the figure of the wise fool. This concept is traceable back to at least the middle ages (for...