Til Knowles
@tilknowles.bsky.social
Aspiring academic (PhD student/RA/tutor) + general queer nuisance based Naarm/Melbourne. Interested in performance comedy, mental health, audience, affect, digital media, amongst many other key words. Co-founder of the Australian Comedy Studies Collective.
Reposted by Til Knowles
Humor has increasingly become a prominent tool in right-wing politics and media ecosystems in the US and globally. Check out this upcoming virtual symposium, and please share with those who might be interested in participating or attending
September 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Humor has increasingly become a prominent tool in right-wing politics and media ecosystems in the US and globally. Check out this upcoming virtual symposium, and please share with those who might be interested in participating or attending
Reposted by Til Knowles
US comedians and the mythology of being “champions of free speech” and “speaking truth to power” has evaporated
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
September 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
US comedians and the mythology of being “champions of free speech” and “speaking truth to power” has evaporated
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Reposted by Til Knowles
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
www.avclub.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Reposted by Til Knowles
Conference on „STAR TREK, DYNAMICS OF A WORLD-BUILDING FACTORY“ to celebrate 60 Years of Star Trek, next September 17-19, 2026, in Paris. CfP:
startrekparis2026.wordpress.com/appel-a-comm...
startrekparis2026.wordpress.com/appel-a-comm...
Appel à communication / Call For Paper
English version. Depuis les soixante ans qui nous sépareront bientôt de sa première diffusion le 8 septembre 1966, Star Trek s’est imposé comme un univers de fiction proliférant, transmédiatique et…
startrekparis2026.wordpress.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Conference on „STAR TREK, DYNAMICS OF A WORLD-BUILDING FACTORY“ to celebrate 60 Years of Star Trek, next September 17-19, 2026, in Paris. CfP:
startrekparis2026.wordpress.com/appel-a-comm...
startrekparis2026.wordpress.com/appel-a-comm...
Reposted by Til Knowles
Shows I want pitches for:
Desperate Housewives
Dawson‘s Creek
Grey‘s Anatomy
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
CSI
NCIS
Living Single
American Idol
The Big Bang Theory
Downton Abbey
Fleabag
The Simpsons
Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Parks & Recreation
Saturday Night Live
The Muppet Show
Brooklyn-99
Girls
NYPD Blue
ER
Desperate Housewives
Dawson‘s Creek
Grey‘s Anatomy
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
CSI
NCIS
Living Single
American Idol
The Big Bang Theory
Downton Abbey
Fleabag
The Simpsons
Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Parks & Recreation
Saturday Night Live
The Muppet Show
Brooklyn-99
Girls
NYPD Blue
ER
Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.
September 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Shows I want pitches for:
Desperate Housewives
Dawson‘s Creek
Grey‘s Anatomy
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
CSI
NCIS
Living Single
American Idol
The Big Bang Theory
Downton Abbey
Fleabag
The Simpsons
Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Parks & Recreation
Saturday Night Live
The Muppet Show
Brooklyn-99
Girls
NYPD Blue
ER
Desperate Housewives
Dawson‘s Creek
Grey‘s Anatomy
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
CSI
NCIS
Living Single
American Idol
The Big Bang Theory
Downton Abbey
Fleabag
The Simpsons
Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Parks & Recreation
Saturday Night Live
The Muppet Show
Brooklyn-99
Girls
NYPD Blue
ER
My journal article about how comedy chatcast listeners perform their listenership is out online now! So stoked to be part of Comedy Studies and the forthcoming special issue on comic audience, and glad to be publishing open access
Listeners as performers: co-constructions of listener roles through comedy, intimacy and joking abuse in The Little Dum Dum Club
Listening to a comedy chatcast is a somewhat individual experience; usually done alone, often with headphones in, sometimes days or years after an episode was first released. Without the immediate ...
www.tandfonline.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My journal article about how comedy chatcast listeners perform their listenership is out online now! So stoked to be part of Comedy Studies and the forthcoming special issue on comic audience, and glad to be publishing open access
Reposted by Til Knowles
Get along to this.
The Encampments
A documentary on the student protests in the US exposing universities’ ties to the war on Gaza, which sparked hundreds of university protests globally.
events.humanitix.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Get along to this.
Reposted by Til Knowles
Episode 6 of the Serrated Edge!
Steph Foxton tells @tilknowles.bsky.social about linguistics and a 'little pup,' and how her participants have become really (really) enthusiastic co-researchers...
open.spotify.com/episode/3max...
Steph Foxton tells @tilknowles.bsky.social about linguistics and a 'little pup,' and how her participants have become really (really) enthusiastic co-researchers...
open.spotify.com/episode/3max...
Episode 6 feat. Steph Foxton
Serrated Edge · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Episode 6 of the Serrated Edge!
Steph Foxton tells @tilknowles.bsky.social about linguistics and a 'little pup,' and how her participants have become really (really) enthusiastic co-researchers...
open.spotify.com/episode/3max...
Steph Foxton tells @tilknowles.bsky.social about linguistics and a 'little pup,' and how her participants have become really (really) enthusiastic co-researchers...
open.spotify.com/episode/3max...
Reposted by Til Knowles
Episode 5 of the Serrated Edge!
Kyle Harvey chats to @tilknowles.bsky.social, sharing some unexpected stories including and his own journey to finding out how productive studying humour can be...
open.spotify.com/episode/59Fv...
Kyle Harvey chats to @tilknowles.bsky.social, sharing some unexpected stories including and his own journey to finding out how productive studying humour can be...
open.spotify.com/episode/59Fv...
Episode 5 feat. Kyle Harvey
Serrated Edge · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Episode 5 of the Serrated Edge!
Kyle Harvey chats to @tilknowles.bsky.social, sharing some unexpected stories including and his own journey to finding out how productive studying humour can be...
open.spotify.com/episode/59Fv...
Kyle Harvey chats to @tilknowles.bsky.social, sharing some unexpected stories including and his own journey to finding out how productive studying humour can be...
open.spotify.com/episode/59Fv...
Reposted by Til Knowles
Episode 4 of the Serrated Edge!
Alex Cothren talks to @tilknowles.bsky.social about satire (funny and otherwise), creative writing, and the importance of being part of the AHSN...
Alex Cothren talks to @tilknowles.bsky.social about satire (funny and otherwise), creative writing, and the importance of being part of the AHSN...
June 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Episode 4 of the Serrated Edge!
Alex Cothren talks to @tilknowles.bsky.social about satire (funny and otherwise), creative writing, and the importance of being part of the AHSN...
Alex Cothren talks to @tilknowles.bsky.social about satire (funny and otherwise), creative writing, and the importance of being part of the AHSN...
Reposted by Til Knowles
Episode 3 of the Serrated Edge!
@bradleyjdixon.me talks to @tilknowles.bsky.social about personas, parafiction, comedian comedy and many meta matters...
open.spotify.com/episode/3dpB...
@bradleyjdixon.me talks to @tilknowles.bsky.social about personas, parafiction, comedian comedy and many meta matters...
open.spotify.com/episode/3dpB...
Episode 3 feat. Bradley J Dixon
Serrated Edge · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Episode 3 of the Serrated Edge!
@bradleyjdixon.me talks to @tilknowles.bsky.social about personas, parafiction, comedian comedy and many meta matters...
open.spotify.com/episode/3dpB...
@bradleyjdixon.me talks to @tilknowles.bsky.social about personas, parafiction, comedian comedy and many meta matters...
open.spotify.com/episode/3dpB...
The early career researcher edition of the AHSN's quick interview podcast Cutting Edge is here - Serrated Edge! Episode one features Dr Fergus Edwards talking about his work on Tom Stoppard's use of humour in staging philosophy and PhD survival tips.
What's so funny about research?
🥸
The awesome @tilknowles.bsky.social is talking with a new generation of humour researchers: what are we working on, why, and how?
🤓
While I'm really proud to be talking with her for ep.1, I can't wait to hear the ep.s to come...
open.spotify.com/episode/1BGL...
🥸
The awesome @tilknowles.bsky.social is talking with a new generation of humour researchers: what are we working on, why, and how?
🤓
While I'm really proud to be talking with her for ep.1, I can't wait to hear the ep.s to come...
open.spotify.com/episode/1BGL...
Episode 1 feat. Fergus Edwards
Serrated Edge · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The early career researcher edition of the AHSN's quick interview podcast Cutting Edge is here - Serrated Edge! Episode one features Dr Fergus Edwards talking about his work on Tom Stoppard's use of humour in staging philosophy and PhD survival tips.