{"id":3448,"date":"2020-03-20T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:44:12","slug":"olly-double-on-coronavirus-and-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/03\/20\/olly-double-on-coronavirus-and-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Olly Double on Coronavirus and comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/double.html\">Dr Olly Double<\/a>, Reader in Drama in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a>,\u00a0was interviewed on BBC Radio Kent\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p084pj58\">The Wake Up Call<\/a><\/em> this morning, Friday 20 March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Olly discusses how comedy can be used to alleviate worries during the current Coronavirus crisis. \u2018I think joking gives you a bit of distance\u2019, he explains, \u2018when you laugh about something for a second, you can deny the awfulness of it. Also, it\u2019s a way of suggesting solutions to awful problems.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Olly also discusses how the comedy scene has been impacted by social distancing, and how the industry has responded. \u2018The difficult thing at the moment for comedians is that they can\u2019t go out and do their work. You can\u2019t perform stand up when people can\u2019t meet together in public meetings. What\u2019s interesting is how they\u2019re getting around that. For example, Robin Ince is organising the <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicshambles.com\/stayathome\">Stay at Home Festival<\/a>, where you go online.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Olly then explains about the creative solutions being used by Kent students for their performances on the module\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/module\/DR676\">Stand Up Comedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The section can be heard at 1 hour 56 minutes into the programme here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p084pj58\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p084pj58<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Olly Double, Reader in Drama in the\u00a0School of Arts,\u00a0was interviewed on BBC Radio Kent\u2019s The Wake Up Call this morning, Friday 20 March 2020. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/03\/20\/olly-double-on-coronavirus-and-comedy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,50018,124,9111,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}