“Compelling and hilarious”
“It is hard to explain adequately, but this is one of the funniest shows I have seen all year”
“Unlike some comics that hammer you to death in delivery, Ruben just tells his stories and the laughs come very naturally”
Authors Who Write Wickedly Funny Books
Selected by Ezvid Wiki for “Authors Who Write Wickedly Funny Books.”
Try Stand-Up for a Second Act
Article in The Beacon about a stand-up comedy series in Columbia, MD.
One Man’s Trash…
Philadlphia’s Broad Street Review discusses an essay on humor in art that I wrote for the catalogue of Jim Condron’s “Trash Talk: History in Assemblage” at the Delaware Contemporary Art Museum: “There’s a short, witty catalogue, helpfully on the artist’s website. Its highlight is the essay ‘Mixed Media Circus’ by Adam Ruben, the molecular biologist who’s also a writer, TV personality, and standup comic as well as an expert at diverting and subverting his own field.”
Heard the One about the Johns Hopkins Students Who Studied Stand-Up Comedy?
Washington Post article about the stand-up class I teach at Johns Hopkins.
Who Gets to Be Called “Doctor”?
Interviewed on WHYY (Philadelphia’s NPR affiliate) about the use of the term “doctor” for someone who only has a PhD.
What the Popularity of “Fortnite” Has in Common with the 20th Century Pinball Craze
Interviewed for an article in Smithsonian Magazine about the history of pinball and its applicability to modern smartphone games.
