https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru Add Golden Lines from Flanagan that illustrate her main argument and/or main supporting ideas en-us 2022-10-24 16:58:05 UTC 2023-04-02 18:05:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354024178 "Until then, there's the college market and the logic problem. Trying to explain to these kids any fundamental truths of stand-up from why it's not a good idea to hold a comedy show in the cafeteria during lunch hour, to why jokes involving gay people aren't necessarily homophobic...." ( Flanagan 72) ]]> 2022-10-24 17:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354024178 https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354024649 "stand-up comics who tell jokes in the student union—great care has been taken to expose you to only the narrowest range of approved social and political opinions: that’s the mouth full of blood right there."

"As I listened to the kids hash out whom to invite, it became clear that to get work, a comic had to be at once funny—genuinely funny—and also deeply respectful of a particular set of beliefs."]]> 2022-10-24 17:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354024649 https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354025242 "They wanted comedy so thoroughly scrubbed of barb and aggression that if the most hypersensitive weirdo on campus mistakenly wandered into a performance, the words he would hear would fall onto him like a soft rain, producing a gentle chuckle... and not text Mom and Dad that some monster had upset him with a joke" (Flanagan 71).

"The black-box theater of an obscure liberal arts college deep in flyover territory may just be the toughest comedy room in the country" (Flanagan 72).

"Still, there's always a price to pay for walling off discussion of certain thoughts and ideas. Drive those ideas underground, especially the dark ones, and they fester" (Flanagan 77).]]> 2022-10-24 17:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354025242 https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354027321 "Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld declared that they would no longer perform at universities because students had become too sensitive and politically correct." (70)]]> 2022-10-24 17:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354027321 https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354027769 Pg 72: "Trying to explain to these kids any of the fundamental truths of stand up- from why it's not a good idea to hold a comedy show in the cafeteria during lunch hour, to why jokes involving gay people aren't necessarily homophobic"
Pg 76: "They seemed wholly animated by kindness and by an open-mindedness to the many varieties of the human experience."
Pg 77: "Sarah Silverman has described the laugh that comes with a 'mouth full of blood' - the hearty laugh from the person who understands your joke not as a critique of some vile notion but as an endorsement of it"]]> 2022-10-24 17:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354027769 https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354133701 "But the student's taste in entertainment was uniform. They liked their slam poets to deliver the goods in tones of the highest seriousness and on subjects of lunar bleakness; they favored musicians who could turn out covers with cheerful precision; and they wanted comedy that was 100 percent risk free, comedy that could not trigger or upset or madly trouble a single student." (p.71)]]> 2022-10-24 18:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/stakeuchi1/eudgjhs1xorsmxru/wish/2354133701