Angel Campey is a Cape Town comedian, writer and radio presenter whose career started with a blog, a Twitter account and a plan to get into Cosmo. Fifteen years on, she has written for ZANews and Politically Aweh and presents the drive show on Smile 90.4FM. She still misses the Twitter that made all of it possible.
In this episode, we talk about comedy after Twitter: how algorithms give every audience a different set of references, why the universal joke is either impossible to find or too hack to use, and how the death of monoculture has forced comedy writing to evolve. Angel also explains how she changed her mother's mind on vaccines by curating her feed, and we compare notes on out-of-context clips and comment sections. Enjoy.
Keep up with Angel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelcampey/
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/almostperfect
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