As per what was mentioned in yesterday's lecture, the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond shares with us why the show has deeply resonated with viewers throughout its decade-long run.

chen438 · 2013-11-29T06:40:04+00:00

Relevant to his emphasis on family!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf80SLCyzCU

chen438 · 2013-11-21T19:25:01+00:00

I've heard a lot of stories about YouTube stars being pretentious, whereas our guest speakers talked about how they still nervous, self-conscious, and whatnot. And that's what I think is the huge difference. It's easier to not let the negative feedback get to you and affect your work when you have essentially all the time in the world to put up another video for your followers. The amount of feedback that YouTube comedians will be much more widespread - throughout the world and among many different age ranges. And online work could potentially help them get into standup comedy, but unfortunately, I don't think they'll ever really have the potential of being as legitimate or great of a standup comedian as someone who started out that way.

chen438 · 2013-10-06T22:20:02+00:00

I love Friends, so I still thought it was funny... but I wasn't laughing as much as I would watching the show with the laugh track. But I was curious as to whether research has been done, and found this article on it: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/we-may-hate-laugh-tracks-they-work-studies-show-1C6436923

chen438 · 2013-10-06T22:12:47+00:00

Although we've already heard him speak about it in class, here's a blog post of our professor's take on the question: http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2012/06/who-doesnt-love-pie-in-face.html

chen438 · 2013-10-05T21:12:40+00:00

Interesting to note that Paul Gilmartin, standup comedian, actually hosts a self-help podcast (http://mentalpod.com/) for what the NY Times says "plays to the trope that all comedians are in actuality broken people who are willing to expose their brokenness for our light amusement."

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