Meeting the New Yorker Cartoon Editor
Today I speak about YouTube at the International Society for Humor Studies.
If I don’t finish this post quickly I’m going to miss my flight from Newark to Boston. But I can’t tell you how incredibly excited I am to meet academics who study humor, and I’m perplexed this conference isn’t all over the news. Shame, reporters. Shame, media.
I’m most excited to meet some of the “great minds” of Humor Research (see website), and tickled to find out the friggin’ editor of The New Yorker’s cartoons, Robert Mankoff, will be attending. Check him out in this cool video… he explains humor as a way to understand what we know and don’t.
I hope to make a video while I’m there, and I am curious about whether the crowd will love the idea or despise it. Ideally I’d like to create a video that satires the academic exploration of humor, and shows (willing participants) finding no humor in my sophomoric fart hijinks. That’s called juxtaposition.
they never pick my suggestions – guess my ideas aren’t NYer material
Bastard.
So yeah. I’m gonna probably miss my flight now. I guess I’ll drive. So much for starting my presentation preparation on the plane. I wonder if the NY cartoon guy would be up for a video where I passionately try to convince him my “yo mama” jokes are primo captions.
Kev, just play the new vid I uploaded – I’m telling ya people are gonna love that guy!
Looks like you missed yoru flight. LOL
Good luck!
You get to have all the fun!
that’s a great cartoon