Panel: What's So Funny?
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
2-4-2009 12:00 PM
End Date
2-4-2009 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, April 2, 2009, as part of the 40th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Wit,” Chuck Klosterman, Steve Almond, Karen Russell, and Greg Williamson participate in a panel called “What’s So Funny?” The panelists discuss how to mix comedy and tragedy in the same work, how they navigate between what they find funny and what their audience does not, how sex is used in comedic situations, how poetry and humor work together, how to humorously characterize people (particularly when you are from there and it can be seen as offensive), what they find amusing about Twilight, the role of contemporary media in American culture, and other topics.
Moderated by Rex Sorgatz.
Streaming Media
Panel: What's So Funny?
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, April 2, 2009, as part of the 40th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Wit,” Chuck Klosterman, Steve Almond, Karen Russell, and Greg Williamson participate in a panel called “What’s So Funny?” The panelists discuss how to mix comedy and tragedy in the same work, how they navigate between what they find funny and what their audience does not, how sex is used in comedic situations, how poetry and humor work together, how to humorously characterize people (particularly when you are from there and it can be seen as offensive), what they find amusing about Twilight, the role of contemporary media in American culture, and other topics.
Moderated by Rex Sorgatz.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2009/day3/3
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