{"id":152992,"date":"2020-07-20T01:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/20\/joz-norris-captures-spirit-of-fringe-comedy-in-crafty-new-film\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T01:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T23:01:03","slug":"joz-norris-captures-spirit-of-fringe-comedy-in-crafty-new-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=152992","title":{"rendered":"Joz Norris captures spirit of fringe comedy in crafty new film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally planned as an Edinburgh show, You Build the Thing You Think You Are is now a film \u2013 and a different proposition to live-streamed lockdown comedyJoz Norris\u2019s new experiment starts with a provocation. \u201cTo me,\u201d says the comic, \u201ca live-stream show can only ever feel like a rough approximation of what live comedy used to feel like. To me, there\u2019s no room for Zoom.\u201d Live-streamed comedy was quick into the breach when IRL gigs were cancelled \u2013 and we\u2019re all invested in trying to make it as successful as possible. But: are they an adequate substitute for the experience they\u2019ve replaced? To Norris, live-streaming \u201csacrifices a lot of the things I love about live comedy in favour of preserving interactivity\u201d. You get something approximating to the live experience. But do you get much else?Norris\u2019s response is to turn to film-making. Before the festival was cancelled, he had a show ready for Edinburgh 2020, about his recent experience of moving house \u2013 and losing himself, he felt, while doing so. The show, so specific to this moment in his life, couldn\u2019t wait until 2021. He didn\u2019t want to can it altogether \u2013 but neither did live-streaming appeal. So Norris has turned You Build the Thing You Think You Are into a 50-minute film. It now has a seven-day run online, with each screening followed by a live Q&A. Continue reading…
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Originally planned as an Edinburgh show, You Build the Thing You Think You Are is now a film \u2013 and a different proposition to live-streamed lockdown comedyJoz Norris\u2019s new experiment starts with a provocation. \u201cTo me,\u201d says the comic, \u201ca live-stream show can only ever feel like a rough approximation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}