Tag: selfmockery
Video: Biden’s stand-up show: US President scores with self-mockery
In Washington DC on Friday, the 80-year-old had the laughs on his side. Allusions to his age and casual handling of microphone feedback gave a flash of the president’s comedic…
“The Orange Pill” by Iljoma Mangold: Much self-mockery in Bitcoin culture
From Philip Boverman Currency rates usually play no role when talking about utopias. For the financial-technological avant-garde on the Internet, however, which the literary critic Iljoma Mangold has joined, Bitcoin…
Nicolas Cage pokes fun at himself with delectable self-mockery
With A talent in solid gold , Nicolas Cage enters the circle of actors who are iconic enough to be able to parody themselves. He joined, among others, John Malkovich…
“The English are more comfortable with self-mockery than the French,” says comedian Paul Taylor
His first stand-up show, #Frenglish, was, as its title suggested, half in English and half in French. Since “it went pretty well”, Paul Taylor decided to write a second one…