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The theme for this month's archive newsletter is, simply, *jokes*, because
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Funny First
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*"Comedy is not a game you win by playing defense" and other lessons from
one writer's foray into the world of stand-up *

"Seeing comedy’s bald aggression with words made me view my own history
with them differently. In all my years of working with words—first as a
student of creative writing and then as a cog in the publishing machine—I
could see how often I had been encouraged to use language to make other
people comfortable, with the mostly unspoken understanding that the greater
my mastery over this aspect of my work, the greater the rewards would be."

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*The standup comedian on the art of turning stories into jokes and his
elusive quest for six-pack abs. *

"You ever have something that happens and then you just keep telling
different friends about it separately? Where you’ve had a bunch of other
shit happen that day or whatever, that to an objective outsider watching,
there might have been other stuff that was more interesting or even more
significant, but you just focus on this one thing? When I really want to
talk about something and it’s burning in my mind, that’s what I bring to
the stage."

*Essay*
The Banality of Comedy
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*Brecht's jokes infected his audience, and Beckett's made them squirm in
their seats. George Tabori, friend and colleague to both men, had a
different sort of humor—precise, passionately human, and fiercely
misanthropic. *

"George Tabori’s plays are chaotic, muddled, and inconsequentially
episodic. They don’t have a political message, but they don’t champion the
absence of meaning either. They neither drive to a conclusion nor rejoice
in their own equilibrium. In *The Cannibals,* a group of inmates at a
concentration camp kill and cook a fellow prisoner. All this happens within
the first thirty minutes of the first act"

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"They Want us to Look"
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*Through the lens of the teen sex comedies of the early 1980s.*

"Teens, sex, comedy: sounds like a new holy trinity of American popular
culture. But these teens were, as sex-seeking robots, too one-dimensional
to be sympathetic. And their ideas about sex were off-balance—a mixture of
debauched aggression and deep weakness. It’s sex without a
connection—male-female relations as a grudge match."

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