What is Rives?

As i was brainstorming about my paper I found myself rewatching the videos of Rives on our classes blackboard. As is typical, I found myself laughing hysterically at some points and deeply moved at others. After watching "Mockingbird" for the seventh time, I asked myself, "What is Rives?". Is he a poet, a comedien, an entertainer, a social comentator, what? What can the medium on which he creates his art be classified as? I had no clue. More and questions jumped into my mind: questions such as if I were to introduce Rives to an audience or attempt to describe who Rives is and what he does to someone, what would I say? I guess you just have to witness Rives to have an understanding of who he is and what he does.