Ben Rosenfeld provides a list of five basic improv techniques and an important one is the “Yes, and …” where you follow up on whatever the other person says, that you never ignore it and pursue your own line of thought. You have to go with the flow and that requires a great deal of quick-wittedness.
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We have entered a period in which democracy, with all that it connotes about respect for the rule of law and human rights, and that had been in decline in the US for some time, has rapidly degenerated, the label now merely a veneer slapped on an emerging autocracy. I share with commenter Smokey the concern that some of the things that I post under the category of humor are really quite terrifying. But I decided to go with the intent of the creator and if that person is a humorist, then humor it is.
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The comic strip Pearls Before Swine is not usually overtly political, preferring to cast a wry eye at society’s mores in general. But in the last week it has been more targeted in which the obnoxious Rat gets sworn in as president, starting with the strip last Wednesday. The creator has continued that story arc on and off for the next week that you can see online, such as this one from Tuesday.
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog gives us his take on last Friday’s events.
Two activists in Quito, Ecuador were offended by the poor grammar and punctuation that they saw in the city’s graffiti, seeing them as showing a lack of respect for the language and people. So they decided to do something about it, by becoming grammar vigilantes who prowl the streets at night, anonymously correcting errors wherever they saw them.
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While I have resigned myself to being treated to a blizzard of trivial issues during the Trump presidency that will sideline coverage of his actual actions, even I was surprised that the focus in his first weekend was on the absurd fuss over the sparse crowd at his inauguration compared to that of president Obama’s in 2009 and the Women’s March on Saturday.
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I didn’t watch the inauguration yesterday because displays of pomp and pageantry coupled with speechifying bores me to tears and having to listen to Donald Trump would just compound the irritation. So I was grateful to Stephen Colbert for providing the highlights.
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I did not watch it but Saturday Night Live covered it.