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Notes From the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-Grade Panic From 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy
Edited by Amy Solomon
Harper Design: 256 pages, $30
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Amy Solomon, a film and TV producer whose credits include “Silicon Valley” and “Barry,” grew up in Chicago, ingesting Second City vibes along with her school lunches. And then, one “very fateful Hanukkah,” a relative gave her a boxed set of DVDs from the early years of “Saturday Night Live.”
“I was introduced to the genius who is Gilda Radner,” Solomon says over a video chat from her sunny, art-filled Silver Lake apartment. “I was convinced our spirits were linked. She was just my queen.” After researching “everything and anything” Radner did, Solomon found a 1976 artifact called “Titters: The First Collection of Humor by Women.” Saucy and very of-its-t
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Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Stand-up comedians used to have a simple rule: no subject is off-limits if the joke is funny. It was a good rule, and it made for some great comedy. The rise of the woke left represents an existential threat to that rule, and to good comedy generally. When it comes to comedy, indeed, the mantra, increasingly, is that any gag that might conceivably offend anyone, especially someone belonging to what the woke left considers a victim group, should simply not be tolerated – period. To an alarming extent, this comedy-killing mentality has been institutionalized at outfits like Netflix and Comedy Central, at some comedy clubs, and in the mainstream media. So it is that the comics who are most honored in such circles are dreary scolds like the Tasmanian lesbian Hannah Gadsby, whose acts are light on actual humor and heavy on identity politics. You don’t hear a lot of laughter from these peop
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Getting stories told . . . Otago Community Hospice volunteer co-ordinator Rebecca Shaw (left) and biography service co-ordinator Denise van Aalst are searching for North Otago volunteers to help hospice patients share their life stories. PHOTO: SUPPLIED/BECS WILSON
The search is on in North Otago for a special sort of person who can help capture life stories.
Otago Community Hospice offers a patient biography service, and is looking for one or two volunteers willing to help patients to tell their own stories, volunteer co-ordinator Rebecca Shaw said.
“We are looking for someone who is confident and able to connect with people,” Ms Shaw said.
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