An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar is a segment of the Artists on the Verge podcast which features conversations from the high/low art divide between comedian and TV writer Nicholas Anthony and your host Ema Katrovas.
In this episode Nick and Ema attempt to finish reading the chapter on the film industry from William Dereziewits’s Death of the Artist. They also talk about some real-life stories from trying to make it in the film and TV industry and quite a bit about YouTube and the small YouTube creator strategy, including a detour on the canceling of YouTuber Lindsey Ellis. They also talk a lot about technology and mind control, among other things.
Some things mentioned which merit citation:
- Duplass brothers book /Like Brothers/: https://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/535098/
- Sizzle for My Girlfriend’s a Doll (the project that didn’t quite make it into the Sundance lab): https://vimeo.com/175526344
- Documentary about making Apocalypse Now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_of_Darkness:_A_Filmmaker%27s_Apocalypse#:~:text=Hearts%20of%20Darkness%3A%20A%20Filmmaker's%20Apocalypse%20is%20a%201991%20American,directed%20by%20Francis%20Ford%20Coppola.
- Coffeezilla (investigative journalism YouTube channel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeezilla
- Everyday Astronaut (YouTube channel about rockets) : https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut
- Czech dancer Yemi who was selected to go to the moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coG6kDB9pzc
- Contrapoints (YouTuber): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContraPoints
- PhilosophyTube (YouTube channel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Thorn
- Lindsey Ellis: https://www.youtube.com/@LindsayEllisVids
- Lindsey Ellis' investigative journalism piece on the Hobbit movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTRUQ-RKfUs
- Contrapoints essay on Canceling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8
- Lindsay Ellis cancelling: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/former-youtuber-lindsay-ellis-says-s-learning-live-trauma-canceled-rcna35389
- The art anthropologist we don’t mention by name: Ellen Dissanayake
- Cambridge Analytica documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Hack
- The Priest’s Children (the Croatian comedy Nick would like to adapt): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Priest%27s_Children
- Article about the Israeli show Shall We Kiss and the Czech version Až po uši (that Ema participated in translating): https://medium.com/warnermediaent/hbo-europes-original-series-head-over-heels-and-when-shall-we-kiss-now-available-a2040b2bdb1a
- Exporting Raymond Documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exporting_Raymond
- Mr. Beast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast
- Elisabeth Gilbert’s TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius?language=en
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