Episode 28: Humor and the Geek!

Elevating The Genre - Smart stuff in the genre world

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/11/items/Episode28_201705/Episode28.mp3

This week we crack into another concept (thus killing it entirely): HUMOR! What is funny? And why is it funny? What is funny about various and different fantasy and sci-fi IPs.

Please don’t forget we are always open to suggestions to what you want us to kick around as a topic. Please see the “Suggestion Box” post for that (or feel free to leave a comment below with some ideas.) https://elevatingthegenre.wordpress.com/2016/09/16/first-blog-post

As always our music is provided by: Nathan Bruynoghe

And, finally, the links to the stuff we are talking about:

Margaret Atwood’s Variation on the Word Sleep: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/variation-word-sleep
Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2485613W/Another_fine_myth
(PS: I’m an idiot it’s not Asprin’s wife writing it now it’s Jody Lynn Nye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Lynn_Nye)
All things Dork Tower: http://www.dorktower.com
(by JOHN Kovalic, UGH Christopher gets a BUNCH wrong this episode)
Bored of the Rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings
(And it’s freakin’ HARVARD Lampoon, not National Lampoon [HEY! don’t yell at me… one turned into the other, so there.]).
Hardware Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymFxkFfIhU
Red Dwarf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog

Joanne stuff (Christopher’s upcoming feature):
https://www.facebook.com/joannethemovie/
Twitter: @JoanneTheMovie

Dom’s stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/user/dommah

And more US:
Dominic Mah: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1394256/
Christopher Morrison: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1392571/
Find Morrison online here: http://www.realityplus.org
One of Dom’s online presences: https://www.facebook.com/ThorHulkCritic