Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Seattle’s Intersections Festival shows how comedy is evolving
The Seattle Times: When Olympia’s El Sanchez first started out as a comedian a decade ago, comedy was not a friendly place to be as a transgender, nonbinary, queer, mixed-race, Latinx child of a Mexican immigrant.
Sanchez, who uses the pronouns “they” and “them,” said they would routinely be in green rooms where other comedians and producers would make racist, homophobic and sexist jokes and comments. Sanchez was asked not to do comedy sets with “gay stuff” or “girl stuff” and asked to make their work “more relatable to men.”
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This article point out to something that indicates the beginning of something new, quirky and refreshing in the repertiore of theater over the nation, with the example of one city.
Comedy has always been a genre that has been welcomed and appreciated but with a catch: only some things are considered inherently funny and hence teh same things are repeated every single time.
But this articl talks about humor that involves the LGBTQ+ members and how they interact to create a story in a humorous and effective way which is a path breaker in a way where new things and concepts are being accepted in the genre of comedy.
I really hope that this festival is only the beginning of the adavncement that this sort of content is going to witness in the coming time because seriously, theater has the potential to represent such diversity of stories that nothing can possibly be not shown and appreciated in this world of theater.
I was honestly surprised when I read this article because most of the issues surrounding the comedy world addressed in this article, we have talked about in depth in my interp class. This article mentions how comedy can be funny without being offensive and punching down on groups who have faced a lot of discrimination. We have talked in my class a lot about how the positive ethics and morals of joke can actually lead to the joke being funnier which is opposite than what many people believe which is that the more offensive a joke is that the funnier it is. I am also very glad that this article brought up the issue of diversity and how “Diversity is not just black and female. Diversity is a tapestry of religion, sexuality, race, disability status, gender, heritage, language … the list goes on and on.” I think it is so important to recognize that there are so many more ways to be diverse than just the ones that people normally think of and representing all types of diversity is important.
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