Emcee Etiquettes: Experts Weigh In on How to Host the Perfect Cabaret Night
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gigi L'Amour (a.k.a. Stephen Lawson of 2boys.tv) interviews six contemporary cabaret emcees on how they came to hosting and what their individual approaches are to the role. Hosts are Alex Tigchelaar a.k.a. Sasha Von Bon Bon (Toronto/Montreal), Lois Weaver a.k.a. Tammy WhyNot (New York City/London, UK), Dayna McLeod (Montreal), Earl Dax (Montreal/New York City), Alexis O'Hara a.k.a. Guizo LaNuit (Montreal), and Keith Cole (Toronto). With an introduction by Gigi L'Amour, this article profiles established mid- to late-career cabaret artists from Canada and the United States. These artists work with various live art performance techniques, including drag, persona, improvisation, interlocutor framing, feminist performance, comedy, variety programming, performance art, political theatre, and queer aesthetics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".