DiScoMboBuLaTe where literature, comedy and Aristotle's Poetics collide
‘Comedy is... an imitation of inferior people’ (Poet.1449a32f.,cf.1448a2-5,16-18,1448b24-6).
Aristotle was probably referring here to Scottish TV comedy and modern standup. Not, tragically, to DisComBoBuLatE at the Comedy Festival, which features Alan Bissett, Amy Burns, Billy Letford, Kirstin Innes, Ryan Van Winkle, Anneliese Mackintosh. Superior people all, imitating themselves.
Your ineffable host, Ian Macpherson, will be trying to lower the tone.
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