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The History of Comedy Podcast: from Apuleius to Zelensky
By (AR+IO) Eisel MazardComedy
The History of Comedy Podcast: from Apuleius to Zelensky episodes
- Josh Menchions: the King of Comedy. In Newfoundland.
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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
18 min - Antisemitism in Stand Up Comedy: Emptying Out the Left.
Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).
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https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts
AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
32 min - ChatGPT Ruined Stand Up Comedy: A.I. Kills the Creative Writing Process.
Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).
https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/
https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts
AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
9 min - Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet.
Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community, although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together like-minded people (as per "the spirit season one") with an ambition to accomplish something more than they could ever attempt alone.
Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).
https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/
https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts
AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
48 min - Instagram is destroying stand up comedy: how not why.
An article and a podcast: https://a-bas-le-ciel.blogspot.com/2025/02/instagram-is-destroying-stand-up-comedy.html
And, now, also a youtube video: you can follow it as an audio only podcast, or as "a video podcast", etc., on Spotify, or Apple podcasts, your call.
Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).
https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/
https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts
AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
1 hr 38 min - A Technique is a Trap: Comedy and/or/as Politics.
Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).
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https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts
AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
55 min - How To FAIL at Stand-Up Comedy: Steve Sabo's Book and the Fate of the Nation.
Much more than just a book review, this is an analytic discussion of stand up comedy in the 2020s —regarded as a decade of decline— although it does happen TO INCLUDE a review of Steve Sabo's book (that touches on many of the same subjects in passing).
Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).
https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/
https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts
AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
1 hr 1 min - Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV by Joe Toplyn: a Book Review
Writing for a cluster of news commentary comedy shows in New York City remains one of the few viable options to earn a living in comedy this century, with the cinema revenues in a state of utter collapse and all forms of television broadcasting in decline (digital or conventional: even Netflix and Disney+, not just cable TV is now in decline). Joe Toplyn's book is in some ways a set of reflections on a period of history now coming to an end, and it is also practical advice on what you can do with your own career, before it's over.
Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).
https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/
https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts
AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
57 min
About The History of Comedy Podcast: from Apuleius to Zelensky
From the publisher's feed
Yep, from the Ancient Greeks to New York City stand up geeks, it's THE REAL history of comedy with Rome and Shakespeare in-between (did you realize the extent to which Plautus and Terence influenced… well… EVERYTHING that came afterward?).
AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.