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Laughter

Laughter

Video and Audio from 2009

The 2009 Festival explored the many ethnic and cultural shadings of laughter, the battles around humor and political correctness, gallows humor and medical ethics, laughter as imagined by artists including Molière, Mozart, Beckett, laughter and the brain, and an array of opinions on the subject proffered by comedians, filmmakers, writers, politicians, economists, and scholars.

 

ALL VIDEO AUDIO SLIDESHOWS
Ars Antigua: Musical Jokes of the Baroque
Black Humor
David Blight: 2009 Baskes Lecture in History
Blacks, Jews, and the Comedy of Subversion
Stuart Brown: The Importance of Being Playful
Chicago Sports
Burnham Centennial Program: The Future of Chicago
An Incomplete History of Comedy in Hyde Park
Commedia dell’arte
Barbara Ehrenreich: 2009 Doris Conant Lecture on Women and Culture
Dr. Paul Farmer: Public Health in Haiti
Four Women Talk About Being Funny
Aaron Freeman: The Book of Job and the Comedy of Suffering
Gilman Sander
Dick Gregory: The Color of Funny
Guerrilla Girls: Feminist Masked Avengers
Richard Halpern: Laughing at Norman Rockwell
John Hodgman: More Information Than You Require
Wayne Koestenbaum: The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
Tony Kushner: 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize
Laughter and the First Amendment
Jonathan Lethem: Writers on the Record
Alison Lurie and Bill Savage: Literary Laughs
Lucky Plush Productions and The Beckett Boys
Opera and Laughter
Torey Malatia: This American Laugh
Robert Mankoff: Cartoon Caption Contest
Senator Claire McCaskill: A Perspective on Progress
Muntu Dance Theatre
Interview: Irene Pepperberg and Alison Cuddy
Robert Provine: Cracking the Laughing Code
Harold Ramis: A History of Film Comedy
Robert Reich
Bob Sabiston: Drawing with Life
Michael Salinger: Well-Defined
Barry Sanders: The Subversive Humor of Lenny Bruce
Simon Schama Tells Jewish Jokes
Herbert Siguenza: From Cantinflas to Culture Clash
Tim and Tom: A Comedy in Black and White
Mel Watkins: On the Real Side
Katie Watson: Gallows Humor
Elizabeth Zimmer: Foot is a Funny Word
The New Yorker Cartoonists
The Lamentations of Ian Frazier
Mary Beard: What Made the Ancient Romans Laugh?
Jayne Anne Phillips and Nick Reding: 2009 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Jules Feiffer: Depression-Era Humor
Ourselves As Others See Us: One Year Post-Election
Anuradha Needham: Laughter, Bollywood-Style
Bruce Burningham: Parody and Postmodernism
E. Patrick Johnson: Pouring Tea
Firoozeh Dumas and Sandra Tsing Loh
From Vice to Virtue: Molière’s Comedic Mission
Aleksandar Hemon and Garry Wills: 2008 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners
Dick Gregory: The Color of Funny
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