Famous Figures
Historical and fictional figures mapped to the sixteen values.
Richard Pryor
Pryor's documented transformation of his stand-up after his 1967 Las Vegas breakdown - walking offstage mid-set, realising he was performing a version of himself designed to make white audiences comfortable - and his subsequent complete exposure of his own pain, racism's violence, and American hypocrisy, reflect a Courage orientation that made comedy into testimony.
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Gadsby's documented construction of Nanette - a stand-up show that explicitly dismantles the tension-release structure of comedy to argue that the release of laughter has been used to neutralise truths that should not be neutralised - and her willingness to make audiences uncomfortable as a deliberate act, reflect a Courage orientation applied to a form built on likability.
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