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1. journals.sagepub.com › doi › 10The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic ...

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   Mar 27, 2013 · Using British and Dutch interview data, this article demonstrates how people from different social classes draw strong symbolic boundaries on the basis of comedy taste.

   • Author: Sam Friedman, Giselinde Kuipers

   • Publish Year: 2013

2. academic.oup.com › policy-press-scholarship-online1 The Art of Stand-Up Comedy - Oxford Academic

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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.

3. link.springer.com › article › 10Stand-up comedy and the comedic cult of the individual: or ...

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   Aug 17, 2019 · Stand-up comedy prioritises the individual performer. Yet its success relies upon awakening collective sentiments through laughter. For this article, the aesthetic form of stand-up becomes a site to explore the legacy of Durkheim’s ‘cult of the individual’.

   • Author: Daniel R. Smith
   • Email: SmithD34@cardiff.ac.uk

   • Publish Year: 2021

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   Goffman’s methodological critique of social power, a sociology of humor helps reveal part of what that critique might be. The Critical Capacity of Humor: Humor as Reality Play

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   Sep 1, 2020 · Not only does an analysis of trust elucidate how comedy works in a social context, but it also allows for a deeper understanding of the evaluation of humor. I discuss this mainly through talking about trust and humor, since stand-up comedy is mainly an art of humor.

6. www.emerald.com › insight › contentA Sociological Case of Stand-Up Comedy: Censorship ...

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   Jan 7, 2019 · This book chapter reflectively explores the challenges of studying provocation, satire, bad taste and offence in stand-up comedy. The author’s sociological lens on the topic is situated within the broader field of humour studies, which is a relatively small yet creative and innovative field within the human, cultural and social sciences.

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   What is the sociological theory of stand-up comedy?

   • To this end it outlines stand-up comedy as the art of ‘intra-personal’ relations where ‘self-other’, stranger sociality is built, improvised and performatively situated. You do not currently have access to this chapter. Abstract. This chapter provides a sociological theory of the stand-up comedian.

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   What is the relationship between humor and stand-up comedy?

   • This article advances a novel way of understanding humor and stand-up comedy. I propose that the relationship between the comedian and her audience is understood by way of trust, where the comedian requires the trust of her audience for her humor to succeed. The comedian may hold (or fail to hold) the trust of the audience in two domains.

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   What is the aesthetic function of stand-up comedy?

   • The aesthetic function of stand-up comedy prioritises an individual existence. While it may also provide a moment of collective, shared experience, what meanings are being communicated about the individuality of the stand-up comedian in comic performances?

   Stand-up comedy and the comedic cult of the individual: or, the humor

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   What is the ultimate implication in stand-up comedy?

   • In the final section I draw to the ultimate implication, which is that one of the tasks of the comedian is making themselves clearly trustworthy to the audience. This is the ultimate domain of skill in stand-up comedy: getting the audience to trust and accept the comedian. ii. HOW I AM TALKING ABOUT HUMOR

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   Is stand-up comedy a modern cultural practice?

   • Stand-up comedy is identified as a modern cultural practice in this article, which builds on Durkheim's initial concerns but features a different understanding of the subject.

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   Is participation a standard of success for stand-up comedy?

   • Using participation as the standard of success is also particularly apt for stand-up comedy. This is because that while stand-up standardly pursues the laughter of the audience, it does not do so exclusively.

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8. bura.brunel.ac.uk › bitstream › 2438/22720/2On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for ...

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   Abstract . Humour and comedy have gained increased significance in academic research in recent. . This article examines the importanc. qualitative social science research methodology. It makes the original contribution of. utilizing humour and comedy theory, and critical understandings of both their macro and.