One element can create tension and humour that is so much richer
Dead-Frog: Live Comedy Near You
Comedy dissected with comprehensive coverage of stand-up comedy tours, festivals and events from top headliners to rising stars.
The YouTube stars heading for burnout: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’
Why are so many YouTubers finding themselves stressed, lonely and exhausted?
Amy Schumer is Changing the Face of Comedy
How Amy Schumer overcame her white suburban upbringing to become the funniest, gutsiest comedian in America.
Preparing for the Creator Economy Apocalypse (with Chris Gethard)
Michael Burns
No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?
The characters are dead-eyed waxworks which speak with all the nuance of a satnav. But this AI-created workplace comedy is so bad that even the greatest actors alive couldn’t stop it being unwatchable
‘Are We Participating in a Thing That Is Not Even Working?’
Chris Gethard on the end of the middle-class comedy job.
The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
Netigen
Take a glance at a life chock full of second-guesses and the occasional dramatic pause.
YouTube Community goes beyond video
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A Dusting of Gamification
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification” too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation.
I do think this is a kind of novel problem with our current media environment - Serious people aren't good at making content, they have other things to do, but content is what drives attention. Tastemakers used to highlight the serious people but they're gone, replaced by content creators.
