Kissy Dugan’s Gamble with Comedy
Kissy compares living for comedy to living for social media. Thinking too much about how you present your identity can rob you of a true sense of self.
Student Work: comedy
The Real Michael Scott
In recounting the details of my father’s life, I discovered something simple: Through a lifetime of ceaseless work and an unmistakable belief in family, Mike has made it possible to focus on the things that make him happy.
The Deception of The Bird Revelation
Chappelle's casual and conversational performance style in this special has a very specific function: It gets the audience on his side.
The Radical Comedy of Fleabag and Get On Your Knees
In their groundbreaking one-woman plays, Phoebe-Waller Bridge and Jacqueline Novak prove that uncensored comedy celebrating female sexuality can find mainstream success.
HOWL
"Even though it is out of date, temperamental, and actively begging me to stop using it, I will continue to use Howl for my podcast listening until the day I die."
Rebecca Bunch, Antiheroine
"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend protagonist Rebecca acknowledges the unhealthy nature of her actions while blatantly excusing said actions time and time again. She knows better, and she doesn’t."
Brutally Beth
"Beth has been in traffic now for a horrendously long time. She has severe road rage, the diagnostic kind for which she has a sponsor. She calls as I leave work to tell me this in her quintessential Beth parlance, her voice an odd but unambiguous synthesis of Bobby Durst and Lindsay Lohan."
A Public Mirror
“It is from the beginnings of Western society that we can observe a scathing remark can go unpunished so long as it is accompanied by a joke.” On Molière, satire, and power.