Theo Von Dismantles the Interview Show
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Theo Von Dismantles the Interview Show
But going viral sounds awful. Give me living rooms, tiny venues, a zoom room with 12 people searching for something.
Yancey Strickler • Formulary for New Media
Comedians can’t pretend they don’t have identities. They’re up there, onstage, with their bodies against a brick wall like they’re facing a firing squad. There’s nowhere to hide, so they have no choice but to acknowledge their identities (“So you might have noticed I’m black”) before they move on or drill down.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
These are all spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments. The cultures of those spaces have more in common with the physical world than the internet.