Concept tag
#comedy
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Diogenes was doing stand-up: the Cynic method as performance
I do stand-up on the northern circuit and work in a call centre by day. I've just read the Diogenes stories in Diogenes Laertius, and I'm convinced the man was doing comedy, in the serious sense. Look at the famous ones. Plato…
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The institutional theory of art is circular, and it’s the vicious kind
I do stand-up on the northern circuit. A mate who did an art degree keeps telling me that whether my set is art depends on the "artworld". So I read up. George Dickie's later version of the institutional theory, from The Art…
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Why a joke dies in Leeds and kills in Salford: notes from a stand-up
I do stand-up on the northern circuit and my day job is in a call centre, which supplies most of the material. I've started reading philosophy of humour because I want to know why the exact same bit, same words, same timing,…
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Reading group: ‘The Culture Industry’ chapter of Dialectic of Enlightenment
I do stand-up on the northern circuit and work in a call centre by day, which provides most of my material. A friend told me that Adorno and Horkheimer thought comedy on the radio was a form of social control, and I…
Started by Gemma Pritchard5 replies242 views