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Acting Funny

5 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

The podcast that takes comedy films seriously. Exploring 125 years of comedy on film, one year at a time, to see what we can learn about comedy, film, and ourselves.

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What is a magic lantern?

February 02, 2021 19:57 - 54 minutes - 50 MB

What did people watch before movies? In our modern lives, I think it’s deceptively easy to get into a mindset of imagining our ancestors just patiently waiting for someone to invent cinema so they’d have something to entertain themselves. But, in reality we know that humans have been seeking out ways to entertain themselves since the first cave dweller figured out how to make his friends and family laugh at shadows on the cave wall. When cinema arrived in 1895, it was just the latest in a ...

Who were cinema's early adopters?

January 17, 2021 16:54 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

Full notes will be published on the Acting Funny website at actingfunnypodcast.com YouTube link for this episode's featured film: Une nuit terrible YouTube link for Erik Tait's appearance on Fool Us. YouTube link for the Audiovisual Lexicon of Media Analysis, co-edited by Matthew Solomon. Matthew Solomon University of Michigan faculty website. Books available from Matthew Solomon. Erik Tait website: ErikTait.com Erik Tait social media: Instagram - Twitter Penguin Magic Podcast (hoste...

1895 - L'Arroseur Arrosé

December 29, 2020 04:38 - 1 hour - 74.1 MB

Full notes will be published on the Acting Funny website at actingfunnypodcast.com YouTube link for this episode's featured film: L'Arroseur Arrosé  Martin Barnier Wikipedia Page: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Barnier Video Death Loop podcast: www.videodeathloop.com Doc Isaac music: https://superdocisaac.bandcamp.com/ Friendlytown: https://www.instagram.com/friendlytownknox/ John Hurst Twitter: https://twitter.com/johannhat The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day: https://sa...

What was the first comedy film?

December 29, 2020 04:38 - 1 hour - 74.1 MB

Full notes will be published on the Acting Funny website at actingfunnypodcast.com YouTube link for this episode's featured film: L'Arroseur Arrosé  Martin Barnier Wikipedia Page: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Barnier Video Death Loop podcast: www.videodeathloop.com Doc Isaac music: https://superdocisaac.bandcamp.com/ Friendlytown: https://www.instagram.com/friendlytownknox/ John Hurst Twitter: https://twitter.com/johannhat The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day: https://sa...

Acting Funny Trailer

December 13, 2020 02:22 - 1 minute - 1.64 MB

This is the trailer for Season 1 of Acting Funny, the podcast that explores 125 years of comedy film history, one year at a time. Shane Rhyne, the show's host, is a standup comedian, voice actor, and movie lover with an interest in learning what makes us laugh and what that says about us. Each episode will march forward chronologically one year at a time through comedy film history with guest experts in the worlds of cinema studies, filmmaking, comedy, and more, talking with Shane about a sp...

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