S50 E20: Scarlett Johansson
We talk about the power of news parody with Local News Stories and Press Junket, as well as the complexity of humorous gaze with Couples at the Bar and food Ethics in Victorian Ladies Who Lunch. We…
We talk about the power of news parody with Local News Stories and Press Junket, as well as the complexity of humorous gaze with Couples at the Bar and food Ethics in Victorian Ladies Who Lunch. We also discuss Mike Myers Elevator Ride and Joke Swap.
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09.07.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
😂😂🤣
04.07.2025 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Certain essential aspects of the world are accessible only to laughter."
-Mikhail Bakhtin
25.06.2025 21:09 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
S50 E19: Walton Goggins
We discuss the construction of slapstick with A Guy Who Just Walked into a Spiderweb on Trump’s Tariffs and the complexity of racial representation in The Movie Guy on Upcoming Summer Blockbu…
We discuss the construction of slapstick with A Guy Who Just Walked into a Spiderweb on Trump’s Tariffs, the complexity of racial representation in The Movie Guy on Upcoming Summer Blockbusters, and the humor potential of revealing intimate spaces in Boss’s Bathroom.
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S50 E19: Quinta Brunson
We discuss the inside humor of racial epithets on Weekend Update: Two Applebee’s Barflies Duke and Darlene, the complicated experience of laughing at oneself in Two Bitches vs. a Gorilla and Foreve…
We discuss inside humor and racial epithets on Weekend Update: Two Applebee’s Barflies Duke and Darlene, the complicated experience of laughing at oneself in Two Bitches vs. a Gorilla and Forever 31, and the racial politics of time in Will and Todd’s Radical Experience.
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PMP#196: Our “Sinners” Shindig
I enjoyed joining the Pretty Much Pop crew to talk about Ryan Coogler's new film, Sinners. You can listen here:
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Conference – Critical Humor Studies Association
Looking forward to chopping it up with folks at the Critical Humor Studies Association conference this week. criticalhumorstudies.org/conferences/
23.04.2025 13:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
S50 E18: Jon Hamm
We discuss satirizing socioeconomic inequality in Check to Check Business News, civil disobedience with Emil Wakim on American Patriotism, and the complexity of roasting and comedy writing via Gues…
We discuss satirizing socioeconomic inequality in Check to Check Business News, civil disobedience with Emil Wakim on American Patriotism, and the complexity of roasting and comedy writing via Guess! The Correct! Answer!, Gay Parents, and The White Potus.
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S50 E17: Jack Black
We discuss the implications of the call-and-response-gone-wrong in Ego Nwodim on the WHCD, ethical non-monogamy in Making Love, the potential of framing to disrupt collective memory in Times Square…
We discuss the implications of the call-and-response-gone-wrong in Ego Nwodim on the WHCD, ethical non-monogamy in Making Love, the potential of framing to disrupt collective memory in Times Square Kiss, and The First Play through multiple lens.
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12.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat."
E.B. White, "Some remarks on humor"
31.03.2025 14:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is
connected with the decay of language, and that one can
probably bring about some improvement by starting at the
verbal end."
-George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
30.03.2025 21:25 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
sent book 2 off to the publisher. now back to revising book 1...
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I know we’re lost as a nation because Stephen A Smith is on CNN holding forth…
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thanks for the heads up!
15.03.2025 01:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We discuss the power of satire in the Trump, Musk and Rubio Meeting Cold Open, satirizing masculinity and power in Weekend Update: Lord Gaga on His Unwavering Support for His Wife Lady Gaga, the manic pixie dream girl and commodity feminism in Mascara Commercial,
14.03.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
poster showing details for the Carceral Injustice conference at Northwestern University
If you find yourself in the Evanston area this weekend...
11.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
S50 E13: Shane Gillis
We discuss how to satirize stereotypes in the Stand Up Monologue and Mid-Day News 2, the difficulty in satirizing Trump in the Cold Open, the trolley problem in Jane Wickline Gives Dating Advice, a…
Before Lady Gaga on @nbcsnl.bsky.social tonight, listen to #snl101 discuss how to use the Shane Gillis episode in the classroom. We discuss the Opening Monologue, the Cold Open, Mid-Day News 2, Jane Wickline, and CouplaBeers.
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08.03.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
what a tosser 💩4🧠
05.03.2025 20:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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the anti-intellectual assault continues
04.03.2025 22:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The problem is so tenacious [unresolved inequality] because, despite its virtues and attributes, America is deeply racist and its democracy is flawed both economically and socially." --Martin Luther King Jr. "A Testament of Hope"
02.03.2025 16:06 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Biracial Asian writer. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). Shirley Jackson finalist. Features & Reviews ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. sensitivity reader. http://www.addietsai.com
Philosophy of science; history & philosophy of biology, medicine & psychology; mental health; clinical research & practice; Washington U St. Louis
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Philosopher at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University. I work on mind, language, and metaphysics at the intersection of pragmatism, German Idealism, and analytic philosophy.
Website: www.brandonbeasley.net
Substack: beasley.substack.com
Philosopher – British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool and co-editor of Debates in Aesthetics – Researching why artists are so weird, why we let them be so weird, and what we can learn from them
M.A Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast.
Phenomenology - Social Epistemology - Philosophy of Mind - Philosophy of Pornography
Events Coordinator for British Postgraduate Philosophy Association
My Links:
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I write about philosophy, e.g.:
Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (Verso, 2025)
The research group on political, legal, and moral theory and philosophy @weareceu.bsky.social. Research interests as diverse as our members - from democracy and legitimacy to equality and justice.
Find us at: https://politicalscience.ceu.edu/POLEMO
Philosophy professor and occasional philosopher | Kant's Reason (OUP): https://tinyurl.com/kantreason | https://philpeople.org/profiles/karl-schafer
A language ethicist in the baking. Research fellow at the MPI MMG (www.mmg.mpg.de/home); website: www.peledy.com.
Three philosophers. One bartender. Pouring wisdom straight into your earbuds.
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Philadelphia feminist writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"
philosophy professor, Tacoma WA
Reader in Media and Communications, Brunel University.
Humour and comedy researcher & author of The Rhetoric of Racist Humour and The Rhetoric of Brexit Humour.
▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
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PhD Candidate in Philosophy
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Philosophy of Neuroscience, Mind, Evolution, & Aesthetics/Neuroaesthetics
https://philosophy.illinois.edu/directory/profile/ddurso3
Visual Artist
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(Humor) Writer. Ph.D. candidate in English & Creative Writing. MFA. Words in McSweeney's, HAD, Points in Case, & elsewhere. Father of two. he/him. Tired. https://www.andrewbelfry.com/
