Monthly Archives: April 2013

For the final portfolio, you’ll revise one or two of your essays from this semester. Each essay you revise will be re-graded. I don’t average grades, and you can’t lose any points: your grade will either stay the same, or … Continue reading →

Here are some great Chappelle clips, followed by an invention work prompt to help you develop your comedy notebook. Chappelle often does a kind of compare/contrast humor. He takes a situation and shows how it would go for a black … Continue reading →

Think about what comedy is, and what comedy can do. How is your idea of this changing?   Talk about the evolution of Hicks’s career. How did his material change—and why did that happen? What does it suggest about the … Continue reading →