Comments on: The Genius in Comedy http://social-brain.com/2009/08/12/the-genius-in-comedy/ a progressive understanding of our world Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Markus http://social-brain.com/2009/08/12/the-genius-in-comedy/#comment-114 Markus Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:26:58 +0000 http://social-brain.com/?p=187#comment-114 Comedians that continue their career into old age must have a talent for seeing the silly, ridiculousness that is life. Certainly, it must give them perspective and performing is always cathartic - what could be better than performing and bring sheer joy to people? I was looking at comedians from another angle recently - how they use human weaknesses to create laughter whilst taking the greatest care when navigating those same weaknesses in themselves, as they prepared new material "Humans – a comedy routine or comedy of errors?" http://bit.ly/OsXRI Comedians that continue their career into old age must have a talent for seeing the silly, ridiculousness that is life. Certainly, it must give them perspective and performing is always cathartic – what could be better than performing and bring sheer joy to people?

I was looking at comedians from another angle recently – how they use human weaknesses to create laughter whilst taking the greatest care when navigating those same weaknesses in themselves, as they prepared new material “Humans – a comedy routine or comedy of errors?” http://bit.ly/OsXRI

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