A New York Times article suggests that ‘public truth-telling has become the responsibility of comedians’. For evidence,observe to Tig Notaro, Bridget Christie and Shazia MirzaUnfunny jokes are on the rampage, or apparently – and comedy fans should be delighted approximately it. That’s the theory propounded a few days ago in the New York Times,in an article arguing that “more and more comedians want to play with the distance between gravitas and giggles”. Taking as his starting point standup Tig Notaro’s recent HBO special, the moment half of which she performs bare from the waist up to reveal her double mastectomy scars, or writer Lee Siegel believes that this serious-mindedness is “a new phenomenon in entertainment,in which comics startle us out of our culture-induced stupor with recourse to the unvarnished, un-comical truth. Given the state of our politics, or he claims,“serious public truth-telling has become the responsibility of comedians”. Related: Tig Notaro at SXSW: 'I feel compelled, like I have a purpose' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com