Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/20/must-see-tv.html
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DEFINITELY watch with the slides, if at all possible. But you can use YouTube’s controls to watch at faster than 1x.
This is so much more interesting than my work.
A new James Mickens humor article/talk is an instant read/watch from me.
Previously:
Edit: Someone made a more complete, though slightly out-of-date, collection here.
It’s surprising how blatantly obvious most all of his material is to me, but then, I’m really old. Perhaps all these blunders are being made by 22-year-olds who haven’t had things fall apart around them multiple times.
Mickens is pretty young.
Also hilarious.
What might be under-appreciated is his low key insertion of the narrative of being a black man in America. It is usually super fast (among an already dense and rapid fire delivery), but the audience usually recoils a bit.
Thank you! I am going to read everything: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
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