Sweet Tweets
Some of Megan Amram’s twitter gems.
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Tweeter Titters
LA comedy writer Megan Amram has mastered the form of the Twitter joke.
2.17.12
Financial Reform: The Doggerel
An ode to transparency
8.19.11
Tweeting Her Way to Comic Heights
Writer Megan Amram ’10 builds her fan base on Twitter.
6.29.11
Channel Cerfing
With sound, image, and word, Chris Cerf teaches the basics.
6.13.11
Unpack!
George Plimpton’s contrarian Class Day manifesto of 1977
4.25.11
Comedy, Harvard, and Hollywood
Three articles from Harvard Magazine’s archives explore the roles Harvard alumni have played in the entertainment industry and their influence on comedy.
10.19.10
Funniest Pages
Rick Meyerowitz’s Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a compendium of the best pieces from the National Lampoon.
10.19.10
Radio Wits
Three Harvard graduates help create the weekly humor of NPR’s Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
1.1.10
Laughing at Slavery
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
3.1.09
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.