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Laugh Tracks Part One and Part Two
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From: Helen Borten
Length: 00:29:27
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In interviews and performance, ethnic humor get a workout in the only place on earth where mistaken identity can occur in one family: New York City. The ability to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear is at the heart of this hilarious hour. Six comic artists, including an Irishman, a Jewish Korean, and a Cuban who swam Guantanamo Bay to get here exemplify America's diversity and its long-standing tradition of meeting adversity and oppression with humor.
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Distributed by PRI in 2004 as part of the Third Season of A Sense of Place.
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Review of Laugh Tracks Part One and Part Two
A wonderful program about comedians and how reality of life, pain and stereotypes have shaped their comedy routines. A variety of comedians represented by different cultures, background, and style talk about their life, family and personal stories. The piece smoothly swims in and out of their lives punctuating with the appropriate comdey routines. Lots of laugh out loud moments. Now, if I had to review this piece with one word, it would be 'Anti-depressant'. It's not original, but you get my meaning.