Stephanie Brown
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Feminist Comedy
I love the connections you've made between our work! I'd love to talk more about it sometime (and a sidenote--I've seen a lot of amazing work by grad students over the past few years on India's comedy scene-- I've learned a lot). ... -
Podcasting and gatekeeping
These are great questions that I've also been thinking about---- the most famous instance of comedy labor organizing was the strike in the late 70s over comedy clubs not paying their comics. There has also been a more recent ongoing debate around Upr ... -
comedy categories
Thanks for the comment! I feel like I had so much more to say, but too little space to develop my ideas as much as I would have liked (but definitely want to turn this into something longer!). I've been interested for a long time in discourses about ... -
Stand-up conventions
A delayed response- so I apologize! I think there's definitely a difference in classifying stand-up depending on who is doing so and why. Stand-up comics tend to see stand-up as a convention that is about defying convetion, so they have a stake in th ... -
Classification of comedy
Your piece dovetails nicely with my post from today! Great companion pieces. I think we both seem to be also interested in exploring more fundamentally what stand-up IS. How has it been classfied in the past? How do audiences form their own tastes and wh ... -
You are spot on with regards
You are spot on with regards to Bakhtin and the inversion of social norms. I've long been interested in the double standard there: who is "allowed" the freedom to invert the norms are whose behavior is policed. Only certain comics seem to b ... -
Thanks for the post, Ben,
Thanks for the post, Ben, you've raised some great questions for me to think about. Gender and cultural capital is the crux of my dissertation, so this type of feedback is so helpful. In her book, West mentioned that she continues to get violent thre ...