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The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic Boundaries [PDF]
, 2013 Using British and Dutch interview data, this article demonstrates how people from different social classes draw strong symbolic boundaries on the basis of comedy taste.
Bellevance G +10 more
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Discourse types in stand-up comedy performances: an example of Nigerian stand-up comedy
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2015 The primary focus of this paper is to apply Discourse Type theory to stand-up comedy. To achieve this, the study postulates two contexts in stand-up joking stories: context of the joke and context in the joke.
Ibukun Filani
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The Neural Correlates of Humor Creativity
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 Unlike passive humor appreciation, the neural correlates of real-time humor creation have been unexplored. As a case study for creativity, humor generation uniquely affords a reliable assessment of a creative product’s quality with a clear and relatively
Ori Amir +3 more
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Identity investment in stand-up comedy and online sketches
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 The article focuses on identity investment in stand-up comedy and online sketches performed by Romanian (or of Romanian descent) comedians acting abroad (France and United Kingdom).
Mihaela Viorica Constantinescu
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To Be or Not To Be Humorous? Cross Cultural Perspectives on Humor [PDF]
, 2016 open access articleHumor seems to manifest differently in Western and Eastern cultures, although little is known about how culture shapes humor perceptions.
Hiranandani, Neelam +3 more
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Stand-up Comedy as Contemporary Live Theatre [PDF]
Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2020 Stand-up comedy is a new subgenre of comedy that widely watches across the globe. It is a form of aesthetic performance that elicits laughter and also brings succour and mirth to its audience.
Idowu James Adekunle
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Broadcast Stand-up Comedy and Its Translation
Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2022 With the rise of new platforms of media consumptions, aided by new digital technologies, wider audiences and a growing demand for translated materials, new audiovisual transfer modes have surfaced and with them the field of AVT “has grown exponentially,
Giovanni Raffa
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Cinergie, 2021 NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL, 1975-) is an institution for political humor on the American television. The key for many successful impersonations seems to be hiring popular comedians who build heavily on their own identity and stardom, exploiting the ...
Matteo Marinello
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Humour of religious satire and linguistic dexterity of Nigerian stand-up comedy
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 Stand-up comedy, as a humorous performance, is a quintessential narrative that chronicles sociological realities of human endeavours. Its humour, as a new subgenre of comedy, fused the roles of performers and their audiences in a scintillating way that ...
Idowu James Adekunle
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The Tyrannies of Distance: From Cairns to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2016 Stand-up comedians need performance opportunities in order to hone their skills and develop confidence as performers. Living in Cairns, a long distance from a major comedy centre, poses problems in gaining practice and exposure as an emerging stand-up ...
Pauline Sherlock
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