This is not a comedy podcast (nor a Magritte painting), but an exploration of why we love and need comedy. If we're talking about it on this podcast you can be sure it is funny!
Is It Funny?
Claim This Podcastby Kate Laity
15 episodes
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Podcast Overview
This is not a comedy podcast (nor a Magritte painting), but an exploration of why we love and need comedy. If we're talking about it on this podcast you can be sure it *is* funny!
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8/18/2020
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December 31, 2021
Episode 14 -- Muriel Spark
<p>Staggering up to the finish line just before 2021 ends is another episode of the languishing series Is It Funny? This time we turn to the Scots style icon Muriel Spark, whose books never fail to cheer me. She is both vicious and economical, as well as laugh out loud funny when she turns to the truly surreal and sublime. She also has great advice for writers, which may involve letters and cats. If all you know is Miss Jean Brodie, let me introduce you to the flashing scalpel of her mind.</p>
March 12, 2021
Episode 13 -- Fran Lebowitz and Cool
<p>I manage to get all the way through this episode referring only to 'the Scorsese show' which of course is Pretend It's A City, which is on Netflix and has the director following around his pal Fran Lebowitz and chatting with her in various places, as a follow up to his HBO documentary Public Speaking. I cogitate on what cool is and why and how Lebowitz defined a certain NYC/art world/film world cool for me as a kid in the sticks reading Interview Magazine along side my various music mags. I may or may not have invented an entirely spurious term, the 'weirdo ceiling' (cf glass) and am definitely uncool.</p>
December 24, 2020
Episode 12 - The Taill of Rauf Coilyear
<p>It's Yuletide so I'm getting medieval on you! Yes, it's the medieval Scots tale of the coal-maker who meets King Charlemagne and despite making some questionable choices due to his testy temper, things turn out pretty well. Bonus of me reading the opening lines in genuine medieval Scots (no comment on the veracity of my pronunciation though). I'm glad to share this charming Yuletide tale with you and I think you'll agree it's delightful. <a href="https://boydellandbrewer.com/i-the-taill-of-rauf-coilyear-i-hb.html"><strong>The Taill of Rauf Coilyear</strong></a> may surprise you with its appeal for modern audiences. Hmmm, maybe I should work on that screenplay...</p>
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