The Language of Comedy - for iPod/iPhone
How do we use language in comedy? What is the social importance of comedy? What are the techniques used with language to create different types of humour? This series looks at how entertainers manipulate language to generate humour, and what this reveals about the nature of comedy and its function in society. Featuring Henning Wehn, on cross cultural humour, Isy Suttie, on crafting a joke and Graham Fellows on creating his character John Shuttleworth.
Creating a character with Graham Fellows
Transcript -- Creating a character with Graham Fellows
Social Class with Charlie Higson
Transcript -- Social Class with Charlie Higson
Innuendo with David McGilivray
Transcript -- Innuendo with David McGilivray
Cross Cultural Humour with Henning Wehn
Transcript -- Cross Cultural Humour with Henning Wehn
Catchphrases with Charlie Higson
Transcript -- Catchphrases with Charlie Higson
Crafting A Joke with Isy Suttie