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Dressing for Laughs: Comedy in Costume
Dressing for Laughs: Comedy in Costume
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Length:
75 minutes
Released:
Aug 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This episode puts the gags front and centre. We don’t mean the effortless banter between Lucy and Ben, or her relentless teasing of him (which is only funny for one!), but the laughter and joy that is inherent in dressing up. From the trope of the Wise Fool, and the ‘Scary Clown Scare’ of 2016, to the haute couture of Viktor & Rolf, and an interview with a clown-turned-comedy lecturer, we consider the poignancy of costume puns and explain why a collective giggle is necessary for all. Follow @dressfancypodcast on Instagram Follow @mslucyclayton on Instagram Follow @benjamin__wild on Instagram References Slava’s Snow Show Circus - A Visual History, Pascal Jacob Rabelais and His World, Mikhail Bakhtin I Actually Wore This: Clothes We Can’t Believe We Bought, Tom Coleman What Artists Wear, Charlie Porter Viktor & Rolf – ‘The New Royals’, haute couture A/W 2021
Released:
Aug 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 12: Balls & Baubles – Jewellery at the Beistegui, Capote and Rothschild Costume Balls: In this Season’s finale, Lucy and Ben talk with Levi Higgs about the jewellery worn at three of the twentieth-century’s most lavish and exclusive costume balls. Following Dress: Fancy’s patron saint, Cecil Beaton, who attended each of these events, by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up