Where Comedy Comes From (Live From Chicago Podcast Festival)

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Comedy comes in many forms, each with its own history and style. And while it may be subjective, there's still some surprising science that makes comedy what it is today. This week on the Curiosity Podcast, we talk to long-time performer and teacher Lilly Allison, an expert with a firm grasp on the history and psychology of comedy. In this episode, she explains and demonstrates comedic devices in front of a live audience at the 2017 Chicago Podcast Festival.

Lilly has been involved with comedy since she was 14 yrs old. She has studied, taught, and performed improv with several organizations, including 3 years of traveling with The Second City National Touring Company. In addition to teaching stand-up and improv comedy classes, she also hosts "A Lill Annoyance Stand Up Show" series at The Annoyance Theatre in Chicago.

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0:00.0	I'm curious if we wanted to explore the science and evolution of comedy on the
0:04.2	Curiosity podcast in a special live episode from the Chicago Podcast festival
0:08.5	what would it sound like?
0:12.0	Oh, I'm not. I'm funny.
0:13.0	And,
0:14.0	H.
0:15.0	And,
0:16.0	And, And
0:18.0	What's What's
0:20.0	What's on
0:22.0	What's on? Hi, I'm buddy. Hello everybody do we have any curiosity podcast fans in the crowd by new chance?
0:31.0	Awesome well thank you so much for coming out my name is the crowd by new chance? Awesome!
0:33.0	Well, thank you so much for coming out.
0:34.7	My name is Cody Gough.
0:35.6	I am one of the hosts of the Curiosity Podcast.
0:38.4	We have a night of comedy plan for you,
0:41.0	or the continuation of the night of comedy?
0:43.0	So you just saw a hilarious podcast, which is great,
0:45.8	and now we're going to talk a little bit
0:47.0	about the art and science of comedy.
0:48.8	So I thought it would be really fun.
0:50.6	I wrote down every single time the audience laughed in the last hour and we're going to explain every joke one by one and that's what we're going to do. Sounds fun, right right that's not going to happen actually I we have a very
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