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Stand-up comedy as a hallmark of western culture

open access: yesJournal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2020
The article examines stand-up comedy in view of the symptoms of Western culture that constitute the environment in which this artistic expression has matured.
Anna Kawalec
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Hydroxychloroquine for COVID19: The curtains close on a comedy of errors

open access: yesThe Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 2022
The Lancet Regional Health Americas 2022;11: 100268 Published online 5 May 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j. lana.2022.100268 Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a desperate need for a therapy against the scourge which was decimating health care ...
Ilan S. Schwartz   +2 more
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The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy

open access: yes, 2023
Preface Part I. The Makings of Elizabethan Drama: 1. Introduction 2. Popular drama: the traffique of the stage 3. The learned tradition 1560-80: the language of comedy and the drama of the schools 4. The decorum of the scene Part II.
M. Bradbrook
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On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
Humour and comedy have gained increased significance in academic research in recent years. This article examines the importance of humour and comedy as valuable tools in qualitative social science research methodology.
Sharon Lockyer, S. Weaver
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Caring for the future can turn tragedy into comedy for long-term collective action under risk of collapse

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance One of the greatest challenges in addressing global environmental and social problems is achieving cooperation, in which social and environmental processes are increasingly interlinked.
W. Barfuss   +4 more
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A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can Language Models Serve as Creativity SupportTools for Comedy? An Evaluation of LLMs’ Humour Alignment with Comedians [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency
We interviewed twenty professional comedians who perform live shows in front of audiences and who use artificial intelligence in their artistic process as part of 3-hour workshops on “AI x Comedy” conducted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2023
Piotr W. Mirowski   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Tyrannies of Distance: From Cairns to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

open access: yeseTropic: 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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No Laughing Matter?A Short History of German Comedy

open access: yesSCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 2007
This article is the first stage of research for the book “No Laughing Matter: A Short History of German Comedy’ by Chris Ritchie and James Harris which will look at some key moments in German comedy, representations of Germans in English language comedy ...
Ritchie, Chris, Harris, James
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RELIGION AND COMEDY: EXAMINING ISLAM IN PRISKA BARU SEGU AND BORIS BOKIR'S STAND-UP COMEDY

open access: yesProfetik, 2023
In Indonesia, stand-up comedy performances have become popular in recent years. Stand-up comedy performances are completed and broadcast regularly on Indonesian television, and easily be found on social media such as YouTube.
Abraham Zakky Zulhazmi   +2 more
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KOHESI DAN KOHERENSI WACANA STAND UP COMEDY PRANCIS DAN INDONESIA

open access: yesJurnal Kawistara, 2013
Stand up comedy is an art comedy show which develops rapidly in all over world nowadays. Stand up comedy considered as a smart comedy. This research will concern about french and indonesian stand up comedy discourse by Tomer Sisley (french) and Raditya ...
Esa Agita Anjani
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