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Gigglemaps

This week I ran into my friend, Indy C. We haven’t seen each other in a while, so long that when someone told her I’d moved interstate, she believed them. We’ve both been busy and neither of us have spent a lot of time at the open mics where most comics in Townsville see each…

Podcast Episode: Coffee And Comedy

Pip: Sean Cooper, Comedian — a site where the coffee analogy does more philosophical heavy lifting than most ethics syllabi. Mara: This episode covers two connected territories: what dark roast coffee reveals about comedy craft, and what the comedy world’s track record reveals about its own moral claims. Pip: Two subjects, one throughline — the…

Bad Coffee

Dark Roast. It’s an impressive-sounding coffee description that implies richness and sophistication, which makes us imagine the extra depth and complexity coffee gets from spending the extra time in the roasting phase of coffee preparation. If this is your first reaction, you might be surprised to learn that coffee snobs actively deride and avoid dark…

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About Me

Sean Cooper entered comedy late in life when his voracious need for approval from strangers finally became impossible to manage.

A self-confessed misanthrope and comedy geek, Sean’s hobbies include unsubscribing from email lists, eating his feelings, and mixing fancy cocktails to make his alcohol dependence look sophisticated and fun.

Sean insists it’s not all about the big money and glamour though; he uses comedy as a lens to make sense of an absurd and dysfunctional world.