Episode 22: We Get Serious About Comedy

Welcome to another episode of Conversation on Tap! In this week's episode, Joel and Jose are joined by their good friend Andy to discuss comedy. But, first, they opened up some delicous Anchor Steam beer, which Andy was kind enough to bring for us. For the FRED Talk, Joel and Andy talked a little bit about being "preacher's kids," as well as the particulars of their fathers' respective denominations: Lutheranism and Church of Christ/Methodist. Jose, on the other hand, took a break from his series on the pope to address the recent uncovering of decades of child sex abuse in the Church, the overwhelming number of which took place before the 2002 Dallas Charter written in the wake of the Spotlight reporting. Once the trio started discussing comedy, they covered the history of comedy, the rise of confessional or autobiographical comedy, and the controversial comedians were also mentioned. The issue of whether it is possible to separate the person from their comedy also came up, especially for comedians like Bill Cosby or Louis CK. The question that they keep returning to is whether or not there is a line that the PC police should stand guard of. This segment ended with a look forward to women and minorities in comedy, as well as the prevalence of comedy specials on Netflix. In the final segment of the show, Joel talked about the pop/punk band entitled Joyce Manor. Andy also shared a little about Aki Kumar, who plays blues harmonica with a Bollywood flavor. Jose discussed the Brave New Films documentary entitled Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prison. This episode took a little long to edit-- Joel and I are back to work again, but we will do our best to be more regular with our episodes! We will see you next week! Cheers!