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Right, so, let the robot stand-up comedy begin.
I started Improv Everywhere about 10 years ago when I moved to New York City with an interest in acting and comedy.
It turns out, merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet.
And also, my husband does a lot around the house, and would happily never see another romantic comedy as long as he lives.
And that's when I discovered comedy.
Now comedy travels along a distinct wavelength from other forms of language.
And I'm not talking about all comedy here, because, clearly, there's plenty of humor that colors safely within the lines of what we already think and feel.
Now as to what I mean by the best comedy and satire, I mean work that comes first and foremost from a place of honesty and integrity.
And the result is great comedy that's also an information delivery system that scores markedly higher in both credibility and retention than the professional news media.
Now this is doubly ironic when you consider that what gives comedy its edge at reaching around people's walls is the way that it uses deliberate misdirection.
A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick, where you think it's going over here and then all of a sudden you're transported over here.
Misdirection isn't the only trick that comedy has up its sleeve.
Economy of language is another real strong suit of great comedy.
And one last powerful attribute that comedy has as communication is that it's inherently viral.
Comedy has been crossing country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.
I've had over a dozen bones, this guy, over, eight, 10 concussions, to the point where it's comedy, right?
It is actually comedy, they mess with him.
When I did the Axis of Evil comedy tour, it came out on Comedy Central, I went online to see what people were saying.
So let's imagine that our attacker, called Evil Hacker just for comedy value, inserts something a little nasty.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the major catalyst in America for moral change has been a situation comedy.
Even in a movie like a romantic comedy, "The Graduate," they're having that date, and they're in the car, and it's loud, and so they put the top up.
I train by saying yes to whatever comes my way: drama, comedy, tragedy, love, death, losses.
Other boy bands, country singers, gospel music, funk and rap and stand-up comedy, and there's even a whole section around drugs and jokes.
The word "comedy" comes from the Ancient Greek "komos," – revel, and "oide," – singing, and it differed from its companion art form, "tragedy" in many ways.
And where tragedy almost always borrowed stories from legend, comedy addressed current events.
As a result, they were referred to as komoidoumenoi: "those made fun of in comedy."
By exploring new ideas and encouraging self-criticism in Athenian society, Aristophanes not only mocked his fellow citizens, but he shaped the nature of comedy itself.
Hailed by some scholars as the father of comedy, his fingerprints are visible upon comic techniques everywhere, from slapstick to double acts to impersonations to political satire.
So if you ask human beings, "When do you laugh?" they'll talk about comedy and they'll talk about humor and they'll talk about jokes.
There's a comedy tradition of this, like South Park or Colbert or Randy Newman.
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