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"There’s certainly irony in this movie. There’s certainly camp. But to me they were always integrated, the comedy and the drama and the emotion and the outrageousness of it. I never saw them as isolated components"
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re Kirk’s pairing with Epstein: 'by caricaturizing them in a brain-rot edit, they are transformed into absurdist avatars whose complexities are flattened into a winking shrug'
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'The meme-ification of the Epstein files seems to function as a pressure-release valve: it allows public engagement without moral reckoning. You don’t have to sit with horror if you’re laughing.'
Great news for humor and gender scholars! Free conference "Is caricature a male art? Female caricaturists then and now" is organized by University of Warsaw and Eryk Lipiński Caricature Museum on 28-29 May. Submit an abstract by February 28 to [email protected]
For sure, if you're in stand-up comedy, but if you are an entertainer who cares about our industry as a whole, I cannot praise the @GoodOnePodcast episode w/ @ChrisGethard as a guest enough. 💚