TKIN: Philosopher Encounters Modern Life

Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Comedy And The Implied Author As Window-Dressing

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I don't know if you read Emily Nussbaum's piece in the New Yorker a few months ago about comedy and modern politics, but one of the...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Funny Not Mean?

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The Three Stooges I like funny.  When it comes to lightening the mood, I'm never one for positive thinking or a sunshiny point of vi...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Bertie Wooster, Unsung Hero Of Our Modern Times

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It's a matter of some embarrassment to me that in my past I was not a fan of P. G. Wodehouse.  But it's true.  You might go so far a...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Is Anger, Like, So Over? Or, What Happened To Generation X?

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Remember Nirvana?  The band?  "Smells Like Teen Spirit?"  "Heart-Shaped Box?"  It's only been about twenty year...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Why Isn't Shouts and Murmurs Funny? Or, My LTR With The New Yorker

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The New Yorker and I are definitely in what you might call a Long Term Relationship (LTR).  This is no one night stand, and it's no c...
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Philosophy professor, novel reader, city lover, and dual citizen of the US and Canada. Not a utilitarian.
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