Philosophy of Comedy: Advice from April Macie

Philosophy of Comedy

Advice from April Macie

Posted by Maj S at Tuesday, September 06, 2011

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Reference Material

Aristotle - Poetics
Bergson - Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Cicero - de Oratore (Bk. II 235-289)
Hazlitt - Lectures on the Comic Writers (I. On Wit and Humor) (1819)
Humor (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
McGraw - Benign Violation Theory
Schiller - On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry

Comedy Links

Comedy Central
Funny or Die
Improv
Monty Python Clips
SNL
Splitsider
The Onion
The Second City Network

Comedians

Caliendo
Carlin
Robin Williams
Seinfeld

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