Acting Funny

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...

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...

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:...

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...