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2020
Abstract This chapter explores the ethics of stand-up comedy with a particular focus on the warrant of ethical criticism of this art form. The chapter argues for the need to understand stand-up comedy as a performance and offers an account of the additional ethical leeway one tends to grant to stand-up comedians. The chapter zeroes in on
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Abstract This chapter explores the ethics of stand-up comedy with a particular focus on the warrant of ethical criticism of this art form. The chapter argues for the need to understand stand-up comedy as a performance and offers an account of the additional ethical leeway one tends to grant to stand-up comedians. The chapter zeroes in on
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The Professionalisation of Stand-Up Comedy
2018This 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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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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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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The Interactional Context of Humor in Stand-Up Comedy
Research on Language and Social Interaction, 2009Four shows, performed by African American stand-up comedians in Los Angeles in front of Black audiences and White audiences, were examined. The different sections of the events and the components of the joke sequences are analyzed, looking for aspects that facilitate joke acceptability and finding that audience-referred jokes are resorted to ...
SCARPETTA, FABIOLA, SPAGNOLLI, ANNA
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Robotic Stand-Up Comedy: State-of-the-Art
2018Humanoid and social robots have to perform in socially acceptable ways. They interact with humans and support humans in their needs and their activities. Stand-up comedy is an extreme form of human-human and human audience interaction. It can be mild, but often it goes beyond what is socially accepted in verbal and nonverbal behavior and expressed ...
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Stand-Up Comedy and Addressivity
2016This 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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Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms
2023What 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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Caste, gender, and “global Indian-ness”: spaces of safety in stand-up comedy in global Mumbai
Feminist Media Studies, 2022Aju James
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