Archives for January 2008
A Moment with Phil Mause…
Did another set at Damons in Hunt Valley Sunday - for some reason this room really seems to work for me although my set was competing with the last 5 minutes of the Giants-Packers playoff game. I still have trouble figuring out what my target audience is. I often do better with […]
The Mystery of Standup
I am continuously perplexed about the place of standup in American and world culture. Almost alone among the art forms, it does not receive governmental or charitable subsidy. Why should the opera be subsidized rather than standup? Perhaps because standup is viewed by the “elite” as a kind of “low brow” form of entertainment. On […]