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Role and Potential of Comedians/Entertainers as Social Entrepreneurs Who Activate Local Communities
Sustainability, 2022 Japan continues to confront population decline and aging and ranks low in terms of individual social entrepreneurship. Yoshimoto Kogyo, a leading Japanese entertainment company, launched a project dispatching comedians/entertainers and staff to 47 ...
Nakamura Hiroki
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Ken Loach and the Comedians: The Politics of ‘Acting’
Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2021 This article explores a gap in the scholarship on Ken Loach’s filmmaking, focusing on his casting of comedians in central roles, and the specific impacts of such casting strategies across Loach’s work.
Archer, Neil Archer
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Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 1997
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2022
Abstract The early Christian aversion for the comic and for theatre has been much discussed. The ongoing large popularity of the theatre, predominantly comical in nature, long after the establishment of Christianity as the leading religion of the Roman empire, tells a different story.
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Abstract The early Christian aversion for the comic and for theatre has been much discussed. The ongoing large popularity of the theatre, predominantly comical in nature, long after the establishment of Christianity as the leading religion of the Roman empire, tells a different story.
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When laughing at disablism meets barriers: the complex reality of disabled comedians in stand-up comedy [PDF]
Disability and SocietyStand-up comedy has served as a platform for resistance among marginalised groups, yet disabled comedians remain understudied, reinforcing the expectation that disability should only be discussed in serious, sombre terms.
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2021
This chapter by Rob King examines the rhetorical strategies of Texas-based stand-up comedian Bill Hicks (1961-1994) as a framework for rethinking comedy’s powers of dissent in non-secular terms. By and large, most scholarship on comedy as a tool of social critique has operated within the secular/rationalist orbit of public sphere theory.
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This chapter by Rob King examines the rhetorical strategies of Texas-based stand-up comedian Bill Hicks (1961-1994) as a framework for rethinking comedy’s powers of dissent in non-secular terms. By and large, most scholarship on comedy as a tool of social critique has operated within the secular/rationalist orbit of public sphere theory.
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1992
Abstract At the Playboy Club, the shows changed frequently in the showrooms on the third and fourth floors. Between shows, the comics would go down to the bandstand in the Living Room to do a few jokes and drum up business for their rooms.
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Abstract At the Playboy Club, the shows changed frequently in the showrooms on the third and fourth floors. Between shows, the comics would go down to the bandstand in the Living Room to do a few jokes and drum up business for their rooms.
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1999
Abstract Eliot has never enjoyed a public reputation as a comic poet or as an obscene poet, but his new friends in London in 1915 were well acquainted with the lusty characters who peopled his bawdy ballads and limericks. Eliot playfully interspersed the narrative of his letters to Conrad Aiken with stanzas on the escapades of King ...
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Abstract Eliot has never enjoyed a public reputation as a comic poet or as an obscene poet, but his new friends in London in 1915 were well acquainted with the lusty characters who peopled his bawdy ballads and limericks. Eliot playfully interspersed the narrative of his letters to Conrad Aiken with stanzas on the escapades of King ...
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The Classical Quarterly, 1929
All that we know of this writer comes from an item in the collection of pseudoPlacidus, who, like Nonius Marcellus, collected scholia from MSS. of Republican authors, and with laudable accuracy recorded the exact phrase used by the author as well as the scholium which explains the phrase. The great Latin Thesaurus (cf. Journ. Phil. XXXIV.
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All that we know of this writer comes from an item in the collection of pseudoPlacidus, who, like Nonius Marcellus, collected scholia from MSS. of Republican authors, and with laudable accuracy recorded the exact phrase used by the author as well as the scholium which explains the phrase. The great Latin Thesaurus (cf. Journ. Phil. XXXIV.
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