The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy
1st ed. 2020
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Palgrave Studies in Comedy
ISBN-10
3030372138
ISBN-13
9783030372132
Edition
1st ed. 2020
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 11th, 2020
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
534 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 21.80 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Theatre: individual actors & directorsPerforming arts: comedyPopular culture
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This book focuses on the “dark side” of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams.
This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who perform comedy, join together to contemplate the paradoxical relationship between tragedy and comedy and expose over-generalizations about comic performers'' troubled childhoods, addictions, and mental illnesses. The book is divided into two sections. First, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore comedians'' onstage performances, their offstage lives, and the relationship between the two. The second half of the book focuses on amateur and lesser-known professional comedians who reveal the struggles they face as they attempt to hone successful comedy acts and likable comic personae. The goal of this collection is to move beyond the hackneyed stereotype of the sad clown in order to reveal how stand-up comedy can transform both personal and collective tragedies by providing catharsis through humor.
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