Emma Sullivan
@emma-sullivan.bsky.social
Comedy research (stand up, literature, visual art). Associate lecturer at the Open University, tutor at the Brilliant Club, freelance writer
https://humourinthearts.com/
https://humourinthearts.com/
I wrote about Luke McQueen's new show; densely inventive, it's an audacious bonfire of the vanities - both his own and the comedy ecosystem more generally.
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September 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I wrote about Luke McQueen's new show; densely inventive, it's an audacious bonfire of the vanities - both his own and the comedy ecosystem more generally.
humourinthearts.com/2025/09/02/c...
humourinthearts.com/2025/09/02/c...
Replaced by bots? No, AI needs academics more than we need it www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/replac...
Replaced by bots? No, AI needs academics more than we need it
Many fear algorithms will displace academics but the technology is already eating itself and its long-term business model remains unclear, says Martin A. Mills. Here he explains why bots will not wipe...
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August 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Replaced by bots? No, AI needs academics more than we need it www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/replac...
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‘For Ian Penman, Satie is more than a joker. He is the supreme practitioner of a species of art forever undervalued by solemn-minded dullards, and which is anything but trivial.’
@jonathancoe.bsky.social on Erik Satie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jonathancoe.bsky.social on Erik Satie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Coe · Don’t we all want to be happy? Satie against Solemnity
Erik Satie is the progenitor of torch songs and lounge music, systems music and minimalism, even (with his later...
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August 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
‘For Ian Penman, Satie is more than a joker. He is the supreme practitioner of a species of art forever undervalued by solemn-minded dullards, and which is anything but trivial.’
@jonathancoe.bsky.social on Erik Satie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jonathancoe.bsky.social on Erik Satie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Musical comedy star Jordan Gray returns to the #EdFringe with Is That a C*ck in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Here to Kill Me? – read @emma-sullivan.bsky.social's ★★★★ review
Jordan Gray @ Assembly George Square: Edinburgh Fringe review - The Skinny
Musical comedy star Jordan Gray returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after her spectacular run in 2022.
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August 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Musical comedy star Jordan Gray returns to the #EdFringe with Is That a C*ck in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Here to Kill Me? – read @emma-sullivan.bsky.social's ★★★★ review
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"Finely tuned into the audience, but to call it crowd work seems wrong, and a clumsy description of his divinations"
OLD GOD at #EdFringe gets ★★★★★ from @emma-sullivan.bsky.social – read the full review of this masterful comic portrait
OLD GOD at #EdFringe gets ★★★★★ from @emma-sullivan.bsky.social – read the full review of this masterful comic portrait
Old God @ Assembly Roxy: Edinburgh Fringe review - The Skinny
Alec Jones-Trujillo's Old God offers sublime moments and masterful comic portraits.
www.theskinny.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"Finely tuned into the audience, but to call it crowd work seems wrong, and a clumsy description of his divinations"
OLD GOD at #EdFringe gets ★★★★★ from @emma-sullivan.bsky.social – read the full review of this masterful comic portrait
OLD GOD at #EdFringe gets ★★★★★ from @emma-sullivan.bsky.social – read the full review of this masterful comic portrait
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Su Mi throws the rules of respectability out the window in their debut Fringe show – @emma-sullivan.bsky.social gives ★★★★ to the extraordinary clowning persona at this #EdFringe
Su Mi @ Underbelly Cowgate: Edinburgh Fringe review - The Skinny
An extraordinary clowning persona and a glorious reclaiming of space, Su Mi throws the rules of respectability out the window in their debut Fringe show.
www.theskinny.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Su Mi throws the rules of respectability out the window in their debut Fringe show – @emma-sullivan.bsky.social gives ★★★★ to the extraordinary clowning persona at this #EdFringe
I wrote about Aristotle's Cuttlefish, Matthew Dooley's much anticipated follow-up to his debut graphic novel, Flake.
humourinthearts.com/2025/06/27/a...
humourinthearts.com/2025/06/27/a...
June 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I wrote about Aristotle's Cuttlefish, Matthew Dooley's much anticipated follow-up to his debut graphic novel, Flake.
humourinthearts.com/2025/06/27/a...
humourinthearts.com/2025/06/27/a...
AJLT: 'exploring the whiteness of Miranda/Charlotte/Carrie as they move through this changed and changing world' - 'acting 'as a kind of anti-racist exposure therapy for its middle-aged, white, liberal core audience'
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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And Just Like That ... The Sex and the City spin-off’s surprising take on race
In its third season, the show leans into the cringe again – and rings true when it allows its white liberal characters to mess things up
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
AJLT: 'exploring the whiteness of Miranda/Charlotte/Carrie as they move through this changed and changing world' - 'acting 'as a kind of anti-racist exposure therapy for its middle-aged, white, liberal core audience'
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
A celebration of Taskmaster's innovative and gently subversive approach:
humourinthearts.com/2025/06/03/t...
humourinthearts.com/2025/06/03/t...
June 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A celebration of Taskmaster's innovative and gently subversive approach:
humourinthearts.com/2025/06/03/t...
humourinthearts.com/2025/06/03/t...
"I want to go on the record to say I hate cocaine. I just like how it smells" -Jamie Foxx
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Cancellation, Conspiracies, Cocaine: Jamie Foxx, Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers Let Loose on THR’s Stand-Up Comedy Roundtable
Six top comics — including Hasan Minhaj, Chelsea Handler and Roy Wood Jr. — on finding the funny in tragedy, death and losing 'The Daily Show.'
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May 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"I want to go on the record to say I hate cocaine. I just like how it smells" -Jamie Foxx
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'Perhaps this is symptomatic of the Fleabagification of women’s stories – where farce somehow feels more truthful than straight-up trauma. Is comedy a deflection or a pragmatic approach to getting on with things in a world of misunderstanding and confusion?'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth review – a riotous roadtrip
Two sisters reckon with their past selves and the muddles of midlife in a comic tale of secrets, desire and ferocious loyalty
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May 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
'Perhaps this is symptomatic of the Fleabagification of women’s stories – where farce somehow feels more truthful than straight-up trauma. Is comedy a deflection or a pragmatic approach to getting on with things in a world of misunderstanding and confusion?'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...