Arthur D. Hlavaty

“The Beatles of Comedy”

2021-01-19T11:07:20Z

Remembering Firesign Theatre [Wisconsin Public Radio]

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Satirists cannot work under these conditions

2016-09-20T12:21:54Z

Is Poe’s Law killing edgy comedy?

Thanx to andrewducker

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Thinking more about Joan Rivers

2014-09-10T14:03:04Z

She really was a trail blazer, and like Jackie Robinson, she shouldn't have had to do it and she paid a price. She was allowed to be a Female Comic, but she had to follow the rules: She couldn't be Too Pretty, but she couldn't simply be unattractive; she had to try and fail--the makeup, the hair color, the diets, eventually the disastrous plastic surgery--and she had to mock herself for failing. She also had to police the other women and not let them get away with having too much food or sex. It was a shit deal, and she could have handled it worse, and she really did move the sticks. Today's female comics and their audiences should be grateful.

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supergee @ 2009-10-07T07:24:00

2009-10-07T11:25:29Z

Television comedians are our natural leaders. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are more trusted than other news sources (and rightly so). Al Franken is a better senator than most of those who have never been paid to be funny. And now we have two cases of adultery extortion. The senator went whining to Mommy and Daddy to pay off the bad guys, and the comedian said, "Publish and be damned."

Thanx to Mercury Rising.

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