Andy White Comedian

[AndyWhite]

Hello, philosophers. My name is Andy White from Birmingham, UK and I'm a stand up comic. Back in 2008 I wrote and performed a stand up show about philosophy at the Edinburgh Fringe called "I Think Therefore I Joke". The show fell between two stools: as stand up it was too high brow to be funny; as philosophy it was too lowbrow to interest philosophers. Since then I've been promising to learn more about philosophy, sharpen up my comedy writing, and write more philosophy based comedy that's actually interesting and funny. Being part of this forum is part of that process. I also tweet the odd philosophical joke @FuzzyPhilosophy.

[Walker]

Hello.

Here's a thread you may like.
https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtop ... ophy+jokes

If you're patient some things pop up in dialogue.

[uwot]

Hello Andy. Yours is a noble quest and a thankless task. Henri Bergson, for instance, wrote a book on laughter the main shortcoming of which is that it isn't very funny. Hume had a sense of humour, my favourite joke of his being that religion is proof of at least one miracle-that anyone would believe it. Descartes' 'Common sense is the most equitably distributed commodity. No man thinks he has less than his fair share.' works after a couple of beers. The deaths of philosophers can, to the right audience, be funny: Heraclitus self prescribed being buried up to his neck in cow dung as a cure for dropsy. It may have worked, but it killed him. Empedocles jumped into Mount Etna to prove he was immortal. According to witnesses, he wasn't. A good source for philosophical jokes is the Bluffer's Guide to Philosophy. When I had my interview for my first degree, this was the only book on the shelf in the professor's office. (In fairness, he was moving office at the time, but it shows what his priorities were.) The magazine, Philosophy Now, which supports this forum has jokes in it, and my own work on the philosophy of science (which I have been shamelessly plugging on this board https://willijbouwman.blogspot.co.uk ) has a few gags. Oh, and Bertrand Russell was a bit of a wag: his proof of the life enhancing qualities of tobacco smoking was that he had been in the tail section of a plane that crashed. Most of the people in the non smoking part died horribly. It's all in the delivery, I suppose.

[AndyWhite]

Hello.

Here's a thread you may like.
https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtop ... ophy+jokes

If you're patient some things pop up in dialogue.

Thanks, Walker, I'll give it a look.

[AndyWhite]

https://willijbouwman.blogspot.co.uk

Nice blog. Keep up the good work.

[uwot]

https://willijbouwman.blogspot.co.uk

Nice blog. Keep up the good work.

Thank you. Nice showreel. Keep up the good work.