More than a joke…
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More than a joke…
Anita KapadiaCmns 488 – Art WorldsFebruary 5, 2008
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Stand-Up Comedy
“an encounter between a single, standing performer behaving comically and/or saying funny things directly to an audience, unsupported by very much in
the way of costume, prop, setting, or dramatic vehicle”
(Mintz, 1985, p.71)
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Comedic Material
“The way we as people characteristically look out on the universe may be held up for our gaze by the
stand-up comedian. He or she may call attention to general features of our cultural landscape by
naming the themes that run through the context of American culture like the major ideas of a novel”
(Koziski, 1984, p.59)
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IS COMEDY A LOW BROW ART?
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Comedians as Anthropologists?
Both occupations “…study living cultures in order to reveal something of the
habits and thoughts of that culture the function of that
culture’s institutions” (Koziski, 1984, p.61)
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