After the “YouTubeLoop,” What is the Comic Legacy of Charlie Chaplin and...
In yesterday’s post, I made a brief reading of the recent 44 minute video of Woody Allen “stammering” over the span of his career. The picture I used as a thumbnail for the blog post came from the...
View ArticleAn Experiment: What Happens When you Substitute Humor for Poetry?
Writing on poetry in his book Writing Degree Zero, Roland Barthes makes the argument that “interrupted flow of the new poetic language initiates a discontinuous Nature, which is only revealed...
View ArticleJerry Lewis’s Animistic Comedy
Many a schlemiel-comedian has made his or her livelihood by way of this or that physical gesture (or series of gestures). Oftentimes, these gestures are animations of this or that physical feature....
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