Author: davekeeshan

• June 18, 2021Uncategorized

  David McWilliams on Humour

  David McWilliams is famous around these parts for economics and trying to invent a new buzz word that is even more successful than “Ghost Estates“. Give it up Dave, in […]

• June 18, 2021Uncategorized

  Jordan Peterson discussing comedy

  During a recent Jordan Peterson podcast with New York City-based author & podcaster Michael Malice the topic of comedy the limits and challenges of successfully putting out humour. Peterson can […]

• September 16, 2020Review

  I’m Dying Up Here – Review

  I’m Dying Up Here  William Knoedelseder   This book is set in the period of the 1970s when there was the comedy gold rush which started in LA.  Much of […]

• September 4, 2020Uncategorized

  Anti Left Wing Comedy

  There has been some talk recently about comedy being too left wing. This seems to suggest that comedy, like politics is polar, which it is not! There is an interesting […]

• August 12, 2020Uncategorized

  Steve Martin @75

  I can’t believe that Steve Martin is 75 years young, wow! The Guardian have a write up with different comedians reflect on his influence on their work. In the middle […]

• August 5, 2020Media Archive

  Lessons from Late Night – Tina Fey

  This article ran in the New Yorker in 2011, where Tine Fey discusses what it was like to join Saturday Night Live, what she learned and what is the difference […]

• July 17, 2020Uncategorized

  Marc Maron interview Jim Carrey

  Marc Maron must be on fire recently after getting Jerry Seinfeld on his podcast recently, considered by many to be the great white whale he just got Jim Carrey on.  […]

• June 10, 2020Uncategorized

  Marc Maron interviews Jerry Seinfeld

  Marc Maron has an excellent interview with podcasting hold out Jerry Seinfeld. Check it out! Totally! WTF started as a comedy podcast. It’s a show made by a comedian who […]

• May 18, 2020Uncategorized

  Can you copyright a joke?

  Jokes and are they copyrightable come up a lot.  There is a post over on Chortle where a former law lecturer and standup, Ollie Horn, tries to take it apart. […]

• April 23, 2020video

  Al Pacino