Performance
A Pause Is Not Empty: Reading Timing in a Comic Exchange
Reading timing in a comic exchange shows how a pause redirects attention, sharpens a reaction, and changes the weight…
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Performance
Notice how delivery, pause, gesture and audience change the feel of a comic idea.
Our point of view
A laugh has a working shape.
Urban Comedy Review looks at the choices beneath comic effect: what a line sets up, what a character misses and when a scene changes direction.