#60 - Comedy, Storytelling, Offence, and Creativity
Description
Comedy, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, language, taking things seriously, nihilism, beauty, Albert Camus, silliness and passion, communism, political versus non-political comedy, truth-telling and Charlie Hebdo, Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, laughter as a goal in itself, storytelling, Andrew Schulz and crowdwork, reading the room, fringe topics and Louis CK, intent and offence, cancel culture, Anglo-Saxon versus European comedy, self-deprecation, limitation and the creative process, Natalie Burdick, Bryan Callen’s ‘Complicated Apes’, letting go of control, and staying in the moment.
Maja Malmcrona is an artist from Sweden. Sven Ivanić is a comedian and lawyer from Switzerland. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on May 28, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona
http://majamalmcrona.com
http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Sven Ivanić
https://www.sven-ivanic.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/sven_ivanic/
References
Brave New World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
Natalie Burdick https://www.instagram.com/reel/CMyDc2YHq0Q/
Bryan Callen - Complicated Apes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IhNvtAjGl8
United States
