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This event will bring together activists and comedians to discuss the ways in which comedy can push forward agendas such as #metoo and contemporary women’s rights movements, and how this effort can translate into meaningful change in women’s lives. The event will also showcase the work of UN Women and Mythos Labs in countering violent extremist recruitment narratives—and their understandings of gender—through comedy. It features a comedy set by renown comedian and actress Aparna Nancherla.
In early 2018, UN Women partnered with Mythos Labs to produce a series of comedy videos to counter the messaging of terrorist groups in the Asia region. Working with female comedians in South Asia and South-East Asia, these sketches challenge the narratives used by violent extremist groups and counter extremist ideology in the online space. While this work was originally piloted to prevent and counter violent extremism, the implications go far beyond this realm. Comedy can and is being used to promote broader themes of women’s empowerment and gender equality, by not just making us laugh, but by challenging stereotypes with a broad and engaged audience.
This project is part of UN Women’s Empowered Women, Peaceful Communities programme, which is funded by the Government of Japan. This programme works in the Asia Pacific region to challenge the gendered dynamics of violent extremism and reverse its growing trend, through prioritizing women’s rights, empowerment, participation and leadership—in national decision-making and at the community level.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Summit Comedy, Inc. was formed in 1998 and is one of the largest suppliers of comedy entertainment for Colleges, Corporate Events, Country Clubs, Private Events, Holiday Parties, Night Clubs, and more. We book every where in the United States and represent Stand-Up Comedians, Celebrity Comedians and Speakers, Hypnotists, Magicians, Ventriloquists, and much, much more. Whether this is your first event or you have been planning events for a lifetime, we will make the booking process efficient and smooth. www.summitcomedy.com
重口味 Hardcore Comedy (English & Chinese Sub)
Hardcore Comedy possesses some laughs and even some charm. And again, you should seek professional help if you actually take these movies seriously.
From director Kat Coiro comes L!fe Happens, a comedy centered on three young women - Kim (Krysten Ritter), Deena (Kate Bosworth) and Laura (Rachel Bilson) - who all live under the same roof in Los Angeles. When one of Kim's one-night-stands results in an unexpected pregnancy, things take a sudden turn for the trio. With the help of her girlfriends, Kim must cope with single motherhood as she jumps back into the dating scene amid the fear that toting around a tot can be a dating 'buzz-kill.' Also featuring Jason Biggs, Seymour Cassel, Rhys Coiro, Justin Kirk, Kristen Johnston, Andrea Savage, Geoff Stults and Fallon Goodson, L!fe Happens takes a look at single living, friendship and the joys of life's curveballs.
Third Thursday: LOL MIA
We got silly with local comedians from the Theater of Public Policy.
We took part in live museum label Mad Libs.
We created our own museum comics.
We embarked on a spontaneous “tour” guided by unexpected characters.
We took in the sweet jams of Hot Freaks and Apollo Cobra.
We hung around for in-gallery comedic performances and elevator improv games.
We recorded reactions to goofy prompts in the Funny Face photobooth.
Official Beer: Summit
Music Partner: Local Current from 89.3 The Current
Event partner: Theater of Public Policy
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This event will bring together activists and comedians to discuss the ways in which comedy can push forward agendas such as #metoo and contemporary women’s rights movements, and how this effort can translate into meaningful change in women’s lives. The event will also showcase the work of UN Women and Mythos Labs in countering violent extremist recruitment narratives—and their understandings of gender—through comedy. It features a comedy set by renown comedian and actress Aparna Nancherla.
In early 2018, UN Women partnered with Mythos Labs to produce a series of comedy videos to counter the messaging of terrorist groups in the Asia region. Working with female comedians in South Asia and South-East Asia, these sketches challenge the narratives used by violent extremist groups and counter extremist ideology in the online space. While this work was originally piloted to prevent and counter violent extremism, the implications go far beyond this realm. Comedy can and is being used to promote broader themes of women’s empowerment and gender equality, by not just making us laugh, but by challenging stereotypes with a broad and engaged audience.
This project is part of UN Women’s Empowered Women, Peaceful Communities programme, which is funded by the Government of Japan. This programme works in the Asia Pacific region to challenge the gendered dynamics of violent extremism and reverse its growing trend, through prioritizing women’s rights, empowerment, participation and leadership—in national decision-making and at the community level.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
One of the wackiest shows I had ever seen. Just sketch after sketch of craziness, some of it close to the bone causing one or two couple to leave the audience. Evidently they were not ready for this type of humour?
Project 52 - 2013 Ellenburg Photography's Photo Challenge
This is the one my hubby chuckled at the most...
Third Thursday: LOL MIA
We got silly with local comedians from the Theater of Public Policy.
We took part in live museum label Mad Libs.
We created our own museum comics.
We embarked on a spontaneous “tour” guided by unexpected characters.
We took in the sweet jams of Hot Freaks and Apollo Cobra.
We hung around for in-gallery comedic performances and elevator improv games.
We recorded reactions to goofy prompts in the Funny Face photobooth.
Official Beer: Summit
Music Partner: Local Current from 89.3 The Current
Event partner: Theater of Public Policy
This event will bring together activists and comedians to discuss the ways in which comedy can push forward agendas such as #metoo and contemporary women’s rights movements, and how this effort can translate into meaningful change in women’s lives. The event will also showcase the work of UN Women and Mythos Labs in countering violent extremist recruitment narratives—and their understandings of gender—through comedy. It features a comedy set by renown comedian and actress Aparna Nancherla.
In early 2018, UN Women partnered with Mythos Labs to produce a series of comedy videos to counter the messaging of terrorist groups in the Asia region. Working with female comedians in South Asia and South-East Asia, these sketches challenge the narratives used by violent extremist groups and counter extremist ideology in the online space. While this work was originally piloted to prevent and counter violent extremism, the implications go far beyond this realm. Comedy can and is being used to promote broader themes of women’s empowerment and gender equality, by not just making us laugh, but by challenging stereotypes with a broad and engaged audience.
This project is part of UN Women’s Empowered Women, Peaceful Communities programme, which is funded by the Government of Japan. This programme works in the Asia Pacific region to challenge the gendered dynamics of violent extremism and reverse its growing trend, through prioritizing women’s rights, empowerment, participation and leadership—in national decision-making and at the community level.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
NYC: Day 3!
This was the line for our comedy club reservations. I wish I would have gotten a picture of the rat that walked through the line, but I was too busy reassuring Michele that it was, in fact, a very small rat.
Sony WX350
This is me hanging out in the basement of Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco before doing my Dave Hill Explosion show with guests Dick Cavett and Gordon Gano in 2010. Dan Dion took this photo. He rules. So does my outfit.
This event will bring together activists and comedians to discuss the ways in which comedy can push forward agendas such as #metoo and contemporary women’s rights movements, and how this effort can translate into meaningful change in women’s lives. The event will also showcase the work of UN Women and Mythos Labs in countering violent extremist recruitment narratives—and their understandings of gender—through comedy. It features a comedy set by renown comedian and actress Aparna Nancherla.
In early 2018, UN Women partnered with Mythos Labs to produce a series of comedy videos to counter the messaging of terrorist groups in the Asia region. Working with female comedians in South Asia and South-East Asia, these sketches challenge the narratives used by violent extremist groups and counter extremist ideology in the online space. While this work was originally piloted to prevent and counter violent extremism, the implications go far beyond this realm. Comedy can and is being used to promote broader themes of women’s empowerment and gender equality, by not just making us laugh, but by challenging stereotypes with a broad and engaged audience.
This project is part of UN Women’s Empowered Women, Peaceful Communities programme, which is funded by the Government of Japan. This programme works in the Asia Pacific region to challenge the gendered dynamics of violent extremism and reverse its growing trend, through prioritizing women’s rights, empowerment, participation and leadership—in national decision-making and at the community level.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Here are a few photos from last night’s Barrel Full of Laughs Comedy Club at The Nog Inn, Wincanton.
The Nog is a fantastic place for a comedy night. The room is perfect for it, with a low ceiling and intimate feel making for a great atmosphere. I’ve been three times now and it just keeps on getting better...
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Knives in Hens
Director: Weronika Szczawińska
The Olsztyn version of Harrover’s drama, popular on Polish stages, resembles a new linguistic theatrical experiment rather than a study in women’s alienation. Its director discovers a true semantic treatise under the feature and psychological layer of the text. Three actors are placed within an empty, white space. Words and notions are written out on the walls. With the help of letters and pictograms, the protagonists make attempts to decipher the sense of life and the world. What betrayal means, what the constituent elements of jealousy are, what love is, what a woman is, and who a man may be. Emotions become separated from words, the text of the role assumes the form of a complex language code. What notions are taken to form a hero? At the beginning of the play, the Ploughman, deserted by Wife who chose the Miller, uses the wall to writes the fundamental equation: “horse, field, woman = entire me”. In this world, the task of the Miller is to spoil the inscriptions, change the meanings of words by obscene word endings and drawings. In the thus formatted world, love must also assume a written form. And suddenly everything is like in Greenaway’s Pillow Book: a naked man is writing on a naked woman. This means: now you are mine, you are a sheet of paper that I may fill with writing as I want, and once I am done, I will create you anew. Another production by Weronika Szczawińska, where the laboriously discovered, radical and new form affords a different sense to a well-known work.
Photography: Grzegorz Ziemiański
Rob gets up on stage to open the show. Hanks Saloon runs a Dive Comedy show every Wednesday night starting from 8 PM. I wasn't too sure what to expect when I showed up and I was half planning to just leave when Rob's act was over...but I'm glad I stayed for the whole thing!
The Dive Comedy show at Hanks' is really an intimate venue where comedians can try out new material with a live audience so they can tweak it. I think it's great because it's almost like open mic (but with like actual professional comedians). There were about 6-8 different comedians all performing with material at different stages so I got to see acts which ranged from brand new, to diamond-in-the-rough to nearing polished and ready for prime time.
I really admire them because I think it takes a lot of guts to get up there and tell jokes, not knowing whether they're going to fall flat or not. And so much of it is really dependent on the audience...I have to say a lot of the references quite frankly went over my head - some jokes were really targeting NYC/Brooklyn audiences with neighbourhood specific references and I was a bit like "huh?!". I also really liked Allison Castillo's set and will see if I can catch anything else she's doing while I'm here.
It was also really awesome because we all got free chocolate cake with peanut butter cream icing at the end (definite perk)! Plus it's such a small venue that you can actually go up to people at the end and talk to them. I am totally going to miss places like this in Sydney.