Joe Pontillo

Joe Pontillo was born ages ago and has been doing comedy for even longer. He has appeared on AXS TV's 'Gotham Comedy Live', MTV's 'The Middle Of The Night Show' OANN's 'The Rick Amato Show' and currently has a special on Amazon titled 'Delete Your Account'. His jokes have appeared in Newsday, Timeout NY, The New York Times, and in the Washington Post. He has written and produced two films 'Street Of The Dead' and 'Hank Is Evil'. You can regularly see Joe perform all over NYC and regularly at the clubs on Long Island.

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Comedy as controlling language

According to cultural analyst Susan Purdie, the true aim of humor is to regulate language and meaning. When comedians command a podium, they assume a position of power. In civic society, this mantle,

Comedy should punch up rather than kick down

Rich Vos, an American comedian, recently threw racist "jokes" at female Indigenous guests at a Winnipeg comedy club, as though he hoped the ladies would be arrested for driving under the influence on

Comedy for survival

Being what the great Ojibway writer Drew Hayden Taylor refers to as "a person of pallor" — white — I can't understand the historical and current anguish that Indigenous people have endured as a result