Episode 42: Comedy, the Universe, and Everything
Be The Serpent
English - August 28, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On today's episode, we're discussing what exactly makes things funny. Hardly any dick jokes in this one, folks. (Get it? HARDly? it's a dick joke!) Anyway, our tentpoles (wink wink) this week are The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Emperor’s New Groove, and the Hamilton fanfic, “our gilded age” by screamlet.
What We’re Into Lately
Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O’Neill
Which Witch by Eva Ibbotson
Lettered (writer in Schitt’s Creek and Harry Potter fandoms)
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special Nanette and Ted Talk, “Three Ideas. Three Contradiction. Or Not.”
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Pagan series by Catherine Jinks
Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Mark Reads, a video series by Mark Oshiro
For Next Time
"With Fire In Their Eyes" by Asuka Kureru
Transcription
The transcript for this episode can be found here. Have you written a love letter to your local scribes recently? :D