Mixing pop and politics: Occupied with Comedic Prose #SaSCon2022
Channel: Andrew Luke
Date: 2022-02-27

Writing comedy about serious issues is a challenge. This is a Scribes and Scribblers Con talk about crafting fiction based on times with the Occupy Belfast group.


0:00 Introduction
2:52 Environment: M*A*S*H
3:37 Structure: Occupy
6:22 Dialogue: JLA Bwah-Ha-Ha
6:50 Dialogue: Press Gang
8:00 Dekoven and Deep Fun
9:05 Csikszentmihalyi on Flow
10:00 24 Hour Comics
12:16 The Laughing Budai
13:24 Happiness is Healing
15:06 The Tragic Comic's Ability
18:18 Social Patterns: Red Dwarf
18:54 Always Sunny: The Love of Creating
19:30 Be Inspired and Steal
20:10 Little Bag of Silica Gel
20:50 Skywalker's Hand
21:24 V and Anonymous
23:24 Rifas and Edutainment
25:26 Boring Concepts: Form 11-1
26:18 Private Finance Initiative
27:26 How could it happen?
28:55 Comedy is not always On
30:13 Roberts, Transformers and Sitcoms
32:00 Have a support network
33:40 A professional editor


This video was supported by the folk at patreon.com/andyluke where each month you can enjoy a compendium of TV reviews, activist art, comics, short stories, poetry and other miscellany.


Thanks to subscribers Sonia Andree, AG Publishings, Amanda Rodriguez, Richard Huang, Ian Lawther, Alan Rowell, benchilada, Art, Claire Dickson, Ljerka Jemric, Dave Cromie/Nerdgeist, Andrew Bolster and Arsalan Haider Ali.