Sometimes people just know their stuff. And in the case of Anne Libera, her stuff is comedy and she knows it well.
Libera is a professor of comedy at Columbia University in Chicago. She’s also the director of comedy studies at Second City, and directs performances there.
In this episode, we unwrap the anatomy of a comedy routine and how joking about serious topics has changed over time… and she pours a little bit of tea on some of her more famous students.