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Dignity, Always Dignity

Mar 22, 2022 · 41m 41s
Dignity, Always Dignity
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Laurie and Brian explore what it means to play at the height of your dignity, and whether dignity is a worthy comedic value. Featuring: * Bob Odenkirk on playing to...

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Laurie and Brian explore what it means to play at the height of your dignity, and whether dignity is a worthy comedic value.

Featuring:
* Bob Odenkirk on playing to the height of your dignity
* Deconstructing “play to the height of your intelligence”
* For all the music nerds, here’s more reading on schenkerian analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenkerian_analysis
* Singing in the Rain, “Dignity, Always Dignity,” slapstick and “low brow” humor that requires a lot of training and practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SND3v0i9uhE
* The Superiority Theory of Comedy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor#Superiority_theory
* Taking away your own dignity by looking down at your character or the audience
* When you are anxious, you are more likely to say something sexist or racist
* Mr. Rogers was offended at kids’ TV shows featuring people getting hit in the face by pies: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/what-would-mister-rogers-do/600772/
* “Comedy can either help us work through very difficult things or it can help us take our minds off of very difficult things.” -Laurie Bolewitz
* Dignity and the dangers of self-deprecating humor. “When marginalized people are self-deprecating in comedy, it becomes self-abuse.” -Hannah Gadsby
* Laughter as a type of physical control, and what it means for white dudes to give up that control to people who don’t look like them

Support AWHOAWC artists and contributors:
* Written and recorded by Laurie Bolewitz and Brian Gray
* More from us at https://linktr.ee/humancomedians
* Edited by Andy Sell
* Podcast art by Josie Norton
* Main theme by Neil Newton
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