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Arts, Comedy, Music & Film

Stand-up & sketch comedy

Stand-up & sketch comedy sits within Arts, Comedy, Music & Film. Watch for the relationship between a finished performance, its craft, and the cultural context around it. This selection contains 244 catalog videos from 201 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include sketch comedy, stand-up, satire, comedy, monty python and sketch. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, music, other and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines”, listed under suckerpinch, is cataloged as explainer. Tom 7 (suckerpinch) delivers a long, comedic digression on gradient descent and floating-point imprecision. He shows how rounding behavior can supply the nonlinearity needed to build a neural network.

“Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy”, listed under Every Frame a Painting, is cataloged as explainer. Every Frame a Painting analyzes how Jackie Chan stages action comedy, with nine principles such as starting from a disadvantage, using the environment, clear shots, and keeping action and reaction in the…

244 videos