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Natalie Shure Doesn’t Ruin Everything

Natalie Shure Doesn’t Ruin Everything

  Natalie Shure is a writer and researcher. Her work appears in The Atlantic, Slate, Daily Beast, LA Times, Pacific Standard, Salon, and BuzzFeed. She is head of research for Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV. — Listen to Episode #24 here Natalie Shure Doesn’t Ruin Everything Our guest is Natalie Shure. Natalie’s a writer and […]

The Humor Code’s Slate series revisited: Who invented stand-up? (#8)

Joel Warner and I delve into the history of stand-up comedy in this Slate article. It’s an odd sort of entertainment. There’s no narrative structure, no plot, backstory, sets, editors, or producers. It’s comedy boiled down to basics: a comedian and an audience, where you either score a laugh or you don’t. As British comedian […]