Jesse David Fox, Author of "Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture" - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Описание: Jesse David Fox is a senior editor at Vulture and the site's main comedy critic. He’s also the author of Comedy Book. It’s a book about the history and evolution of comedy through covers and interviews of greats like Jerry Seinfeld, Ali Wong, and Adam Sandler, to just name a few.

Comedy Book isn't just a history of the form. In the book Fox writes about comedy as an evolving artform. He gets into the role it plays in our culture, and how the form itself has changed, and is still changing.

Jesse David Fox joins us to talk about Comedy Book and dives into the evolution of the form. He also gets into comedy’s relationship with social media, and how it’s brought about a growing emphasis on crowd work in stand up.

00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Theory of Comedy?
01:37 - Joining Together Through Comedy
03:44 - Comedy & Evolution
05:17 - Millennials Defining Themselves Through Comedy
07:40 - Adam Sandler
08:21 - "Stupid" Jokes
10:16 - Value Systems
11:21 - Making a Book About Adam Sandler
12:22 - Stand Up Comedy
14:07 - History of Stand Up
15:25 - How Each Medium Changed Stand Up
17:24 - Modern Stand Up
18:35 - "Alternative Comedy"
21:45 - Comedy Nerds
25:00 - How The Current Moment Has Changed Comedy
26:35 - Crowd work Clips
32:43 - Outro






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