DEAF COMEDY JAM
Deaf comedy hasn’t had a lot going for it ever since black people ran it into the ground in the 90s. There’s that episode of Seinfeld where Rob Schneider pretends to be deaf, but that’s kind of it, and I’m not sure deaf people think that counts. Andrew Fisher is trying to end the deaf-comedic world’s long silence by telling jokes in American Sign Language and then having an interpreter say them out loud, which produces a weird, slightly staggered laughter between the hearing and nonhearing members of the audience that’s arguably as funny as the jokes themselves (which are already pretty fucking funny). Here’s him.
