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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"stand-up comedy"”.
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Stand-up Comedy Visualized
<p>Stand-up comedy has become an increasingly popular form of comedy in the recent years and comedians reach audiences beyond the halls they are performing through streaming services, podcasts and social media. While comedic performances are typically judged by how 'funny' they are, which could be …
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An approach to traditions of British stand-up comedy.
This thesis is the first to examine stand-up comedy within an academic framework. It begins with a review of various theories of humour and examines the three major strands of thought; the idea that humour is a way of expressing hostility; the idea that humorous laughter is caused by incongruity; …
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Improving communication in the aspiring stand-up comedy community
… to fill a gap in academic literature regarding stand-up comedy, particularly research about relationships between comedians in a social media setting. The research analyzes such relationships with the uses and gratifications approach, which ties the use of a particular medium of mass …
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Take My Thesis…Please! The Art Of Stand-Up Comedy
<p>In my thesis, I explore the artistry of stand-up comedy primarily by concentrating on five aspects of the genre that one generally uses to discuss literature: theme, persona, language, narrative structure, and audience. My purpose is to critically analyze a mode of artistic expression that is …
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The Courage to Perform: Stand-Up Comedy and Personal Growth
<p>Stand-up comedy, traditionally perceived as a means of entertainment and laughter, holds the power to showcase personal struggle, resilience, and transformative potential. This project delves into how stand-up comedy can be a tool for individuals to confront and conquer their fears by creating a …
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A Jew from Nebraska: An Actors Attempt at Stand-up Comedy
Stand-up comedy has been a major influence on American culture and has given the "Everyman" the ability to laugh at ourselves. Stand-up comedians have been performing in nightclubs, bars, clubs, and, most importantly, theatres for the past 60 years. Stand-up comedy can take many forms: a monologue …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
Live feminist stand-up comedy, and the shared laughter it generates, is a potent form of popular cultural performance that has become increasingly politically relevant and commercially successful in contemporary North America. In this thesis, I take an interdisciplinary, mixed-method approach to …
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The Performance of Intersectionality on the 21st Century Stand-Up Comedy Stage
… Rico. Her call continues to challenge current stand-up comics to acknowledge intersectionality, particularly the perspectives of women of color, and to encourage comics to actively intervene in unsettling the notion that our U.S. culture is “post-gendered” or “post-racial.” This dissertation …
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Why are they laughing? : the re-formulation of identity in Canadian stand-up comedy
… an ethnographic account of the world of Canadian stand-up comedy which explores the conflict and congruence between shifting identities, divided loyalties, private and public selves. Comedy is seen as a dance between the performers and audience members, symbolizing the everyday communicative …
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Investigating contemporary social commentary in South African performance: Theatre, stand-up comedy, rap and visual performance
… domains: theatre (Mike van Graan), stand-up comedy (Schalk Bezuidenhout), rap (Angie Oeh, Early B, and Van Pletzen), and visual art (Berni Searle, Brett Murray, and Steven Cohen). The study explored how artists interrogate questions of identity, inequality, memory and power. Drawing …
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Outside Looking In: Stand-Up Comedy, Rebellion, and Jewish Identity in Early Post-World War II America
Before the “sick” comedians arrived onto the comedy landscape political and culturally based humor was considered taboo, but the 1950s witnessed a dramatic transformation to the art of stand-up comedy. The young comedians, including Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, became critical of American Cold War …
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Open mic? Gender and the meritocratic myth of authenticity in the cultural production of stand-up comedy
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 109811 Lift date: 2021-02-07T20:44:35Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Playing with stereotypes and building a queer community : race, sexuality and the stand-up comedy of Margaret Cho
This project interrogates stand-up comedian Margaret Cho’s queer community-building and cross-identification with her queer fans through her performance of sexual and racial stereotypes, including the fag hag, the Asian American immigrant, and the black drag queen. A close look at Cho’s work in …
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A Class Full of Class Clowns: A Case Study On The Education of Aspiring Comedians
Stand-up comedy is not just for entertainment. It is a platform that many comedians have used to question hierarchies, critique social injustice and inspire change (Chattoo, 2019; Gilbert, 2004; Bingham Hernandez, 2009). For this reason, it is important to understand the education and progression …
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The Acquisition of Comedic Skills as a Component of Growth and Individuation: Post-Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
… Jung’s symbolic and archetypal processes. Stand-up comedy reflects social and psychological change in our society, towards class, gender equality and re-distribution of wealth and re-configuring social structures. Jungian theories are particularly pertinent to this study because they …
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Developing comic text/s : representations and presentations of Jewish cultural identity through the integration of stand-up and domestic comedy
… deals with the integration of the forms of stand-up comedy and domestic comedy in order to create a comic text. The comic text explores issues regarding the presentation and representation of Jewish cultural identity. The integration results in both the experienced and imagined truths of the …
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Pedagogy of the Amused: An Exploration of Writing Education for a Critical Sense of Humor
… can serve nefarious ends as easily as critical: stand-up comedy that makes fun of activists, trolls who use disparaging humor to bolster and protect their privileged identities, and conspiracy theorist news outlets that use satirical elements to generate credibility. Finally, I offer an argument …
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In spite of yourself : the asignifying force of humor and laughter
… Asignifying Force of Humor and Laughter calls upon the interruptive moments of uncontrollable laughter to challenge rhetoric’s historical treatment of humor and laughter. Anyone who has ever suffered a fit of hysterical laughter at precisely the wrong moment, or has begun to laugh spontaneously …
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Gagging for it: irony, innuendo and the politics of subversion in women’s comic performance on the post-1880 London music-hall stage and its resonance in contemporary practice
This thesis focuses on women performing comedy on the London music-hall stage after 1880, examining performers including Bessie Bellwood, Marie Lloyd, Marie Loftus, Maidie Scott, Vesta Victoria and Nellie Wallace. The work of these women as comedy has been neglected in theatre and performance …
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Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon
… and Sarah Millican are not only well-known stand-up comedians in the United Kingdom, but they have also all written autobiographies, with the majority becoming bestsellers. Comedian autobiographies are a contemporary publishing phenomenon that has become increasingly popular in the past 20 …
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