#komoidios

[speakcr-blog]

ℂ || STARTER CALL -- @komoidios

  The Speaker stands,  uneasy,    ( unsure, )  his head tilted in WEARY CONFUSION,  & tired MISUNDERSTANDING.  Below his mask,  he BLINKS,  swallows,  ( gazes with alarm after this... ethereal being. )    “ I-- must apologize.. -- “  [ he hesitates, his hands balling into fists at his sides. ]   Uneasy. Uncertain.       “  I do not recall saying something  f u n n y-- “ 

[strikesfromafar]

"Relax, no one's looking" -komoidios

;nervous starters

“That’s what you think. But there’s always someone looking. You just don’t know about them.”

[doctoronserenity]

// “Comedy can take the ideals and pressures of a patriarchal masculinty that fits only the male, elite, ruling class and attempts to say that the “loser” by this ideal is not really a loser. Comedy is a genre of reversal, turning things upside down and mocking hegemony. That is true comedy (though, nowadays, it seems much of comedy doesn’t understand that, but those doesn’t really count and don’t factor into this discussion). There is an acknowledge that the hegemonic male ideals and even patriarchy itself is quite ridiculous. It is a reclamation of the ordinary male, at best being inclusive of specifically those that the patriarchal construction of masculinity exlcudes, and sidesteps the patriarchal contract and pressures to succeed in its limited and unattainable framework. Comedy becomes a way of testing and working through these pressures to succeed.”

“...Now, this doesn’t apply to all comedy, but this discussion is framing comedy at its greatest potential and at its best.”

[strikesfromafar]

[strikesfromafar]

// I would make a ‘she’s (sometimes) screwing the boss’ joke, but then... she’s not the only one.

[strikesfromafar]

// It seems there’s more reference to the Muses being older than Apollo and having taught him (Theoi) than other way around, though he in later life acts as their leader. And I remember reading somewhere, I can’t remember, that they used to be wild but Apollo led them to use their talents decorously. And it may be easier to find information using the Latin spelling Epheme (Theoi).