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Stand-up Comedy

2016
This chapter explores how Brand is positioned in the history of British comedy and by the distinctions in taste that structure this cultural field. It identifies his ‘signature practices’ through analyses of his major stand-up performances placing particular emphasis on the way he uses self-reflexive autobiography, language and wit, bodily expression ...
Jane Arthurs, Ben Little
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Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms

2023
What are the barriers to women’s participation in live comedy, and how these barriers are maintained in the digital era? In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy still impact on current live comedy production, and explains how the contemporary stand-up scene still reflects wider societal stereotypes about the ...
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Timings: Notes on Stand-up Comedy

The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook, 2020
Abstract This article attempts to provide a basic characterization of stand-up comedy—that is, a minimal portrait of what comes to mind when one learns that one is about to see a stand-up comic. To that end, the focus will be primarily on the relation of stand-up comedy in terms of themes of temporality, including the structure of stand ...
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Stand-up, Comedy und Kabarett

2017
Der gegenwartige Erfolg von Stand-up-Comedy manifestiert sich beispielsweise an einem Auftritt von dem erfolgreichen Komiker Bulent Ceylan vor 42.000 Zuschauern in der ausverkauften Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt am Main am 02.06.2012. Einen Vergleich zu der Komik fruherer Zeiten stellt er auf der Buhne wahrend seines humorvollen Auftrittes innerhalb ...
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Stand-Up Comedy and Addressivity

2016
This chapter highlights the linguistic value of addressivity in two Youtube downloads of Joan Rivers' stand-up comic performance, Live at the Apollo. Despite the devotion of the six articles of Comedy Studies 2(2) to analyses of the data, very little was said about the linguistic content and identity of the performance.
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The Professionalisation of Stand-Up Comedy

2018
This chapter explores the contemporary institutional realities and obligations which stand-up comedians are under. These realities are sociologically explored in relation to wider, societal processes of ‘professionalisation’: stand-up comedy claims an exclusive jurisdiction for itself – the ability to know and produce a belief in the ‘funniness’ of the
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The Art of Stand-Up Comedy

2018
This chapter provides a sociological theory of the stand-up comedian. It seeks to establish a theory of humour which arises in modern societies and the sociality that drives such humour. Although there are philosophical theories of humour, as well as anthropological theories of comedy figures – clowns, jokers, jesters, fools, tricksters – this chapter ...
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ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN STAND-UP COMEDY

2013
ABSTRACT This research was conducted to discover the types of illocutionary acts, the most dominant type of illocutionary acts, the implication of the dominant type of illocutionary acts, and which utterances show the function of stand-up comedy in stand-up comedy performances in Indonesia.
Putri, Giel Utami, Murni, Sri Minda
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Jamel Comedy Club: stand-up comedy à la française?

2019
This chapter will begin by arguing that the Jamel Comedy Club has played a significant role in boosting the visibility of up-and-coming young comedians from France’s banlieues (run-down suburbs) and/or ethnic minority backgrounds in the aftermath of the suburban unrest of autumn 2005. In effect, it created a space for identity negotiation that assessed
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Analysing stand-up comedy

Comedy Studies, 2011
Sharon Lockyer, Brett Mills, Louise Peacock   +2 more
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