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100 years of Dada: today is the centenary of Hugo Ball’s Dada Manifesto (Boing Boing)

An international word. Just a word, and the word a movement. Very easy to understand. Quite terribly simple. To make of it an artistic tendency must mean that one is anticipating complications.

July 14, 2016January 27, 2023 via | Boing Boing
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Art culture essay

Dr. Steve Brule, fake Tim Heidecker, and the comedy of warped masculinity (The A.V. Club)

When Tom Goes To The Mayor, Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and other trailblazing projects from Abso Lutely Productions premiered in the mid 2000s, the world was largely unfamiliar with the concept of nightmare television.

June 17, 2016January 27, 2023 via | The A.V. Club
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‘Comedy Bang Bang’ Is the Jam Band of Comedy ()

On May 11th, I had the fortune to see the traveling carnival of mirth and merriment that is the Comedy Bang Bang live tour when it hit the Tabernacle in my new hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.

May 30, 2016January 27, 2023 |
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comedy essay phish

A Brief Taxonomy of Roasts ()

Trawling YouTube is a weekly look at one interesting story or oddity from YouTube. You ever go down a YouTube rabbit hole and suddenly you’ve wasted five hours watching every Madonna video? This is about those rabbit holes, but the comedy-related ones. When the kush too loud.

May 27, 2016January 27, 2023 |
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Why Saving Banksy Means Saving Yourself — by David Choe ()

Who is Banksy? Banksy is Batman he is not Robin.

March 13, 2016January 27, 2023 |
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5 reasons why Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” will make you forget all about “The Colbert Report” (Salon)

Stephen Colbert resurfaced this week, giving us the definitive rendition of “Camptown Races” in the process.

June 8, 2015January 27, 2023 via | Salon
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comedy essay

How Comedians Became Public Intellectuals (The Atlantic)

This week, in a much-anticipated sketch on her Comedy Central show, Amy Schumer staged a trial of Bill Cosby in “the court of public opinion.” Schumer—her character, at any rate—played the role of the defense. “Let’s remind ourselves what’s at stake here,” she argued to the jury.

May 29, 2015January 27, 2023 via | The Atlantic
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Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination (Maria Popova)

“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses,” John F. Kennedy proclaimed in his piercing eulogy to Robert Frost, contemplating the artist’s role in society and urging us to “never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

May 19, 2015January 27, 2023 via | Maria Popova
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Art essay

A Classical Guitarist’s Assuring Account of Creative Homecoming and Overcoming Impostor Syndrome (Maria Popova)

In her sublime memoir of the writing life, Dani Shapiro wrote: “The job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

January 7, 2015January 27, 2023 via | Maria Popova
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