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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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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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, 1994 Letter from publicists for Out There II promoting media coverage for the show, which features gay and lesbian ...
Comedy Central
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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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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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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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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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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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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
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