From Nanette to Nanettflix–Hannah Gadsby’s challenge to existing comedy convention [PDF]
, 2021 © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Released in June 2018 across most of Netflix’s worldwide outlets, Hannah Gadsby’s comedy special Nanette has gained intense attention.
Giuffre, L
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The New King of Comedy : Theodore Shapiro and the New Millennial Comedy Score [PDF]
, 2023 Theodore Shapiro (b. 1971) is one of the most prolific and successful composers of music for comedies during the first decades of the new millennium. Like Elmer Bernstein, his preferred strategy is to ‘play it completely seriously,’ even though he admits
Tillman, Joakim,
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Humour as social dreaming:Stand-up comedy as therapeutic performance [PDF]
, 2012 Stand-up comedy binds dramatic cultural spectacle to ritualised, intimate exposure. Examining ‘case’ examples from live comic performance, this paper describes stand-up as a kind of social dreaming.
MacRury, Iain
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Dynamics of social class contempt in contemporary British television comedy [PDF]
, 2010 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2010 Taylor & Francis.British television comedy has often ridiculed the complexities and characteristics of social class structures and ...
Lockyer, S, Sharon Lockyer
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The New comedy in the Greco-Roman Era and Its Influence on the Art in Egypt "3rd Century B.C- 3rd Century A.D" (Applying to Mosaic Glass Plaques) [PDF]
المجلة العلمیة لکلیة السیاحة والفنادق جامعة الأسکندریة, 2021 New comedy has appeared in 336 BC, and its plays were derived from daily life, and with satirical humorous themes, which were highlighting problems of social life, and faults, to resolve the deterioration of society.
Amany Shawky, Enayat Mohamed, Heba Magdy
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The Structure of Humor in Psycho Stand-Up Comedy by Margaret Cho
Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya, 2020 This research aims to analyze the structure of humor in Psycho stand-up comedy employed by Margaret Cho. It is qualitative descriptive research. The main source of this research is the oral data in Psycho stand-up comedy performed by Margaret Cho.
Anindita Dewangga Puri
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From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas: Gender and sexuality in Joan Rivers' stand-up comedy performance [PDF]
, 2011 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2011 Intellect.This article employs sociocultural analysis to examine Joan Rivers’ stand-up comedy performances in order to reveal how she
Lockyer, S, Sharon Lockyer
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Palestine Comedy Club: PalCom/No Direction Home [PDF]
, 2023 Commissioned to participate in public panel discussion about Palestine Comedy Club and stand-up comedy performance event for No Direction Home at Soho Theatre, London (Counterpoints/Show & Tell)
Beale, S.
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No Laughing Matter?A Short History of German Comedy
SCENARIO: 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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Stand-up comedy as a hallmark of western culture
Journal 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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