Leslie Jones – The Critical Comic

Humor Theories/Stand Up Comedy/Theories About Spaces

Carnival II: Real Action

Posted on July 1, 2017 by nwilson

In a previous post, I discussed a common, simple model of carnivalesque that was based off the idea of a Roman Catholic celebration of Carnival prior to Lent wr...

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

Jay Leno on Anti-Political Funny Stuff

Posted on June 25, 2017 by nwilson

Tim O’Shei interviewed Jay Leno for The Buffalo News (6/23/2017) about his philosophy on stand-up, and in Leno’s responses I see a few popular notio...