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My favorite part of this article is how the author tries to get ahead of the criticisms of it by quoting a comedy historian as reiterating, "Comedy is always changing." YEAH BUT COMEDY WAS ALWAYS FUNNY.
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If Post-Comedy just requires getting on stage, bombing, and making people feel awkward and bad for me--look out world--I'm about to blow the fuck up.
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Definition of Comedy: "Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience LAUGH."pic.twitter.com/1OELZwFDh8
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Isn’t being funny is the sine que non of comedy? If there’s no attempt to be funny, it’s not comedy.
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Not anymore. Now being not funny is comedy.
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There used to be a phrase for that: bad comedy. This seems like unfunny people acting as unathletic kids acted in gym class: pretend not to be trying. But if they ever get a genuine belly laugh -like when those kids, God bless’em, ever scored -it’ll be the highlight of their day.
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If you go onstage with no intention of even trying to be funny, you might be a "lecturer" or a "speaker" or a "performance artist", but unless words no longer have any meaning, you are by definition not a comedian.
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Well music isn’t particularly musical any more so at least it’s consistent
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Can't wait for the John Cage of comedy.
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Comedy once had permission to offend in a good-natured way. Now it is preachy, vicious, and often just plain tacky in it's effort to be edgy. It is unfunny.
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There will always be things at a comedy show I find less funny or not humorous at all but FFS if you're not even trying to make people laugh just call it "talking." Or advertise it as a shitty Ted talk, not as stand up comedy
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What if I “identify” as a funny comedian?
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Are you sure that post wasn’t secretly made by Amy Schumer?
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Even if the only person amused is the comedian it has always been about being funny.
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As long as Post-Comedy is happy with the Post-Audience.
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Comedy w/o laughs (“post comedy”) is about to ruin comedy much like poetry w/o meter & rhyme ruined poetry as a meaningful art. Too many comedians are so politically charged that they are willfully destroying comedy as entertainment.
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Interesting comparison! My Mum has argued before that completely blank verse, like obtuse prose, was a way to maintain an intellectual in-group in the face of mass literacy. It used to be that the ability to read without speaking out loud marked a clever person. Not any more.
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Lastly, now that I've made up clique-claque I'm going to use it all the damn time.
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So, Post-Comedy was invented by someone who repeatedly bombed on open-mic night at The Comedy Store.
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