Whether it’s gangly arms, gawky lips, thick middles, or thin limbs, it’s not a certain type of body that makes a successful comic. It’s what the comic is willing to do with that body. Usually you’re not aware of it when it’s happening. It’s only later, when you’re trying to describe the hilarity of […]
Alisia Chase
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Martha Stewart run amok
In 1971, Ms. Magazine ran a satire by Judy Syfers titled “Why I Want a Wife.” In the now-classic piece of feminist humor (and as this play points out, feminism and humor are not incompatible), Syfers discussed how a male friend of hers, recently divorced, was looking for a new wife, and the author realized […]
