Hitler Laughing: Comedy in the Third Reich (6-21-21)

00:00 Cultural historian William Grange
01:00 Alexander Technique
03:00 My 2007 interview with William Grange
07:00 Aging and cognitive power
09:30 Writers block
12:00 American identity
15:00 African-American identity
20:00 The civil rights revolution
22:00 American theater and American identity and Death of a Salesman
24:40 Bertholt Brech
25:10 The Caucasian Chalk Circle
26:00 The Good Person of Szechwan
28:20 Lillian Hellman, Edward Albee
28:45 Ödön von Horváth
29:10 Harold Pinter
31:00 The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939
33:00 Modernism
35:00 Stanislavski Method
37:30 Bill Hader
38:10 Daniel Day Lewis
39:00 What’s the most influential art form?
40:30 The Business of American Theater
41:00 Shubert Organization
44:00 Modernist vs post-modernism theater
45:00 The great Christian playwrights
46:00 The Tidings Brought to Mary
46:30 The House Beautiful
48:00 Theater is a communal experience
50:30 Sam Shepard
51:00 David Mamet
52:00 Neil Simon
52:45 Larry Gelbart
1:00:20 Nude scenes
1:01:30 Actresses as hookers
1:18:00 Playwrights vs screenplay writers
1:23:00 What type of plays make money?
1:24:40 Cabaret
1:26:00 La bohème
1:30:00 Peter Cook
1:32:00 Situational comedy
1:33:00 Cheap comedy vs expensive comedy
1:34:00 Tom Stoppard’s Travesties
1:36:00 Hitler loved theater
1:40:00 F. Roger Devlin joins the show for 65 minutes
1:41:00 Sexual Utopia in Power
1:42:00 Charles Murray, https://vdare.com/articles/charles-murray-s-facing-reality-ruling-class-must-accept-race-differences-or-provoke-the-disaster-of-white-identity-politics
1:44:00 Is Roger Devlin a proponent of critical race theory?
2:02:00 The rise and fall of the AR
2:50:00 Tucker Carlson and the threat of white supremacy