{"id":1244,"date":"2020-05-13T16:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T20:47:08","slug":"karen-chee-tv-writer-and-comedian-talks-with-film-media-studies-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/2020\/05\/13\/karen-chee-tv-writer-and-comedian-talks-with-film-media-studies-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Chee, TV writer and comedian talks with Film &amp; Media Studies students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JHU\u2019s Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies is pleased to present television writer and comedian KAREN CHEE as a Visiting Artist! Ms. Chee is a Brooklyn-based writer-comedian who is currently a staff writer for <em>Late Night With Seth Myers<\/em>. She has been published in <em>The New York Times, The Washington Post, <\/em>and<em> McSweeney&#8217;s<\/em>. She does standup and recently also wrote jokes for the Golden Globe Awards! She&#8217;s been interviewed by <em>Variety<\/em> and <em>Vulture<\/em>, as well as listed as a top talent to watch in <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>. She also regularly appears in bits on <em>Late Night<\/em> when she talks to Seth and to the audience! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see many of these here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenchee.com\/watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.karenchee.com\/watch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, April 11th, on Zoom, she will speak about her life in television, and provide answers to student questions in a Q&amp;A on the industry, working in television, and her own career. This will be followed by a lengthy workshop on writing for late night television. Her workshop focuses on how to do monologue jokes for late night TV (this will include practicing writing set-ups, punchlines, punching up vs. down, types of jokes) and comedic sketches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JHU\u2019s Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies is pleased to present television writer and comedian KAREN CHEE as a Visiting Artist! Ms. Chee is a Brooklyn-based writer-comedian who is currently a staff writer for Late Night With Seth Myers. She has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and McSweeney&#8217;s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":1246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,76],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}