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There are many stand-up comedians in the world, of varying
abilities. Their role is to make the audience experience
amusement, which is a close relative of happiness. Laughter is
generally a good thing. Audiences are also comfortable with
the idea that they are there to laugh, and are uninhibited
about so doing.
On the other hand, a good cathartic sob can also be a good
thing. Why, therefore, are there not stand-up pathedians
whose role is to tell sufficiently heart-rending (albeit generally
untrue) stories that their audience is reduced to collective
tears? This art form would develop and evolve over time,
much as comedy has done, and audiences would quickly learn
to engage with the pathedian just as they do with comedians.
Comedy necromancer
Comedy_20necromancer
[not_morrison_rm, Apr 09 2019]
Nanette
https://en.m.wikipe...wiki/Nanette_(show)
[pertinax, Apr 22 2019]
[link]
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Could they also feel around as if they were shut
inside an invisible glass box? |
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Sadly I have no strong feelings one way or the other about apathedians. |
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I imagine it takes more emotional manipulation for the heavier sadness than a light hearty laugh. That is why sadness is not a quick standup gig but rather firmly embeded in theatrical or movie endings and the odd exceptional piece of music. |
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We would pay quite a lot of [MB]'s money to see a stand-up pathologist. |
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...or a stand-up chameleon |
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Excellent - we're making arrangements now for [8th] to see a
pathologist. |
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I'd pay to see a standup logodian, a weaver of logic
so deft and artful, they'd be able to convince the
audience that black was white, cats were actually
dogs, and other feats of logical sophistry. |
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The audience might need deprogramming on the way out,
perhaps by a secondary act playing on the same bill. |
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In store readings of misery lit (which is less of a thing now
than it was, but still). |
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set it to music, and it's just another somebody done somebody wrong song... |
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New York 1960s beat poets. Those guys would make you
wanna slit your wrists. |
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"Waiter, I'll have a Jim Beam on the rocks with a razor and a
hot bowl of water." |
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Ah, but not the late Allen Ginsberg from whom I
have a personally signed copy of Howl. |
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Shouldn't this be titled "Stand-up Tragedian" ... ? |
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You could have Rosencranz and Guildenstern doing a double act. |
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No you couldn't. They're dead. |
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Just remembered me very own stand-up
necromancer gig thingy. Link. |
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Oh. Oh dear ... our embassies from England come too late ... Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this. Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. Still, the quality of mercy is not strainèd; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, upon the place beneath - but not from us. Go, bid the soldiers shoot. |
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...or a Stand-Up Proctologist? |
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"Bend-over Proctologist" seems more appropriate. |
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Then again, afterwards, standing up may be your only pain-free option. |
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