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Voice(s) of Comedy

By Guest PostMay 13, 2012Cultureancel keys, anti-depressant, barnyard, bates college, black friday, catdog, comedy, comedy cabaret, comedy central, comic, commercial character, conan o brien, craig ferguson, duluth, dysfunctional family, generic female comic, jimmy kimmel live, late night, maine, maria bamford, marshall high school, minnesota, myriad talents, nickelodeon, rick moore, sarah silverman program, stevie ray, stuart little, tonight show, university of edinburgh, university of minnesota, voice, voice actress, Wikipedia, world war, YouTube

U alum Maria Bamford gains fame as a comic, voice actress, and quirky commercial character

Sometimes it’s good to draw the long straw on work assignments.

That’s how it feels when you start doing research (read: watch a few Youtube clips) for a story on Maria Bamford, the University of Minnesota alumna who has made her mark as a stand-up comedienne, a versatile voice-over actress, and, in recent years, as the hyper-intense Black Friday shopper in Target television commercials.

Bamford’s credits are lengthy, including multiple appearances on the late-night talk show circuit (“The Tonight Show,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live”), her own web series, and a number of comedy albums. She has guest starred on “The Sarah Silverman Program” on Comedy Central, and is the first female comic to have two half-hour “Comedy Central Presents” specials. (more…)

Preserving a Language

By Guest PostApril 13, 2012Culture, Educationamerican indian, brady willette, culture, dictionary, english, eugene stillday, extinction, james parente, john nichols, larry smallwood, leona wakonabo, louise erdrich, minnesota ojibwe, native language, ojibwe, ojibwe language, persia erdrich, ponemah, preserving language, red lake indian reservation, rick moore, talking dictionary, travis zimmerman, tribal language, wade

U launches groundbreaking new Ojibwe-English ‘talking’ dictionary.

Eugene Stillday was born in Ponemah on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, where he grew up speaking Ojibwe. That is, until his public school teachers forbade him from the practice and punished him and his classmates for speaking the only language they knew.

“[So] we developed a system,” Stillday says. “We’d be talking to each other in Ojibwe, and when the teacher came nearby we’d just naturally swing into English, and when she left, you know, right back to Ojibwe.” (more…)

The Pitfalls of Too Many Men

By Guest PostFebruary 14, 2012Cultureconsumer behavior, dinner dates, engagement rings, Environment, evolutionary biology, financial insecurity, gifts, mating insecurity, photo arrays, psychology, rick moore, scarcity of women, sex ratios, television show, the bachelor, the bachelorette, us cities, valentines day, vlad griskevicius

*A scarcity of women leads men to be impulsive, save less, and borrow more*

If you’re a male living in an area with fewer females than you would like, beware: You may be facing a double whammy.

According to new research from Vlad Griskevicius in the U’s Carlson School of Management, the perception that women are scarce in an environment leads men to be impulsive, borrow more, and save less.

First, mating insecurity; then, financial insecurity. Some guys can’t catch a break. (more…)

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Voice(s) of Comedy

Preserving a Language

The Pitfalls of Too Many Men