Funny is Funny?

frank talk, Zahra Noorbakhsh, Comedian and Pop Culture Collaborative Senior Fellow

Special Guest, Joey Clift, comedy writer

 In this episode, we’re talking pipelines and comedy featuring the 2019 frank talk of comedian and Pop Culture Collaborative Senior Fellow Zahra Noorbakhsh, where she shares her personal story and professional analysis about who has the power to decide what’s funny and the broken career pipeline for diverse stand up comics. Her frank talk accompanies her 2019 report, “FUNNY IS FUNNY: Development Models for Diverse Voices in Stand-Up Comedy.” Bridgit and Tracy then call comedy writer and member of the Cowlitz tribe of the Pacific Northwest, Joey Clift, who responds to Zahra’s analysis and shares experiences of Indigenous comedy artists in Hollywood. Bridgit and Tracy discuss how new emerging artist-led pipelines are re-centering power inside the entertainment industry.

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WONDERLAND @ FRANK TEAM

Hosts and Executive Producers, Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke

Producers, Nancy Vitale and Destry Sibley

Sound Designer, Samantha Gattsek

Sound Engineers, Matt Noble, Mike Gilmore, Eric Elterman, and Colin Ashmaed-Bobbit

Website Designer, Deanna Zandt

Project Coordinator, Daria Segalini

Recorded at The Awareness Group Studios in New York City, the Loft Recording Studios in Bronxville, NY, and WBEZ in Chicago

Special thanks to our friends at frank, Jade Dozier, Lauren Rawlings, and Joey Ehrenkaufer

For show notes and more, visit us at thisiswonderland.us