Download or read book The Unwritten Rules of Stand up Comedy written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self deprecating humor in stand up comedy written by Mirco Steder and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, language: English, abstract: In meiner Arbeit gehe ich der Frage nach, wie und warum self-deprecating humor von Stand-up-Comedians eingesetzt wird und welchen Effekt er auf das Publikum hat. Außerdem untersuche ich die Gemeinsamkeiten mit und die Unterschiede zum Gegenpol des self-depricating humor, disparaging beziehungsweise other-deprecating humor, da die Unterschiede in der Stand-up Comedy in der Wirkung manchmal gering und die Übergänge teilweise fließend sind. Darüber hinaus gebe ich einen kurzen, zusammenfassenden Überblick über die Geschichte der Stand-up Comedy in Nordamerika und bespreche anschließend drei gängige Humortheorien ( Superiority, Relief und lncongruity theory), um den Einsatz von self-deprecating humor zu kontextualisieren. Zur Veranschaulichung habe ich exemplarisch zwei sogenannte skits (Teile einer Stand-up show) des Komikers Jim Jefferies herangezogen, durch die der Einsatz von self-deprecating humor verdeutlicht wird.
Download or read book How to Get Started Manage Your Stand Up Comedy Career written by Barry Neal and published by . This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional comedy coach and performer Barry Neal's book teaches the unwritten rules previously learned only by trial and error, during the first few years of starting out as a professional comedian. This is the perfect book for any person, any age, who has ever contemplated becoming a stand-up comedian. The more than 100 chapters included give any aspiring comedian information that is not avaiable anywhere else.
Download or read book Getting the Joke written by Oliver Double and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers. It's too enjoyable. But that, given its subject, is just what it ought to be, and it treats that subject seriously . . . There isn't a “dull” page anywhere in the book.' – Professor Peter Thomson, Studies in Theatre and Performance Comedy is changing: stand-up comedians routinely sell out stadia, their audience-figures swollen by panel-show appearances and much-followed Twitter feeds. Meanwhile, the smaller clubs are filling up, with audiences as well as aspirants. How can we make sense of it all? This new edition of Getting the Joke gives an insider's look at the spectrum of modern comedy, re-examining the world of stand-up in the internet age. Drawing on his acclaimed first edition, Oliver Double focuses in greater detail on the US scene and its comedians (such as David Cross, Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, Demetri Martin and Margaret Cho); the 'DIY' comedy circuit and its celebrated apostles and visionaries, from Josie Long to Stewart Lee; the growing importance of the solo stand-up show; the role played by Twitter (including an interview with the organiser of the world's first comedy gig on Twitter), and the driving force that is the TV guest slot, be it on Mock the Week or Live at the Apollo. With expanded sections on joke construction, as well as ways to challenge the audience, and a host of new and updated exercises to guide the aspiring comedian, this new edition of Getting the Joke is the only book to combine the history of stand-up comedy with an analysis of the elements and methods that go into its creation. Featuring a range of interviews with working comedians – from circuit veterans to new kids on the block – combined with the author's vast experience, this is a must read for any aspiring stand-up comedian.
Download or read book Punching Up in Stand Up Comedy written by Rashi Bhargava and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times, especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, as well as the exploration of race, gender, politics and conflicts, urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Morocco, India and the USA. It also asks the question whether, along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities, a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social, cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies, media, popular culture, digital culture, sociology, digital sociology and anthropology, and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki.
Download or read book Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand Up Comedy written by Richa Chilana and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book on Hosting How Not to Suck as an Emcee written by Dan Rosenberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the 25 rules of hosting that should never be broken. Read "Words of Widsom" and stories from some of the top comedians working today.
Download or read book Zen and the Art of Stand up Comedy written by Jay Sankey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Frost That Was The Life That Was written by Neil Hegarty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir David Frost was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States. With unparalleled, authorised access to David’s family and friends, in this book Neil Hegarty documents how he became the most successful TV host in the world, his work defining the mood of the moment. Frost didn’t just report the news, he made the news.
Download or read book Comic Insights written by Franklyn Ajaye and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to build a stand-up comedy career, this book is a must read. If you want to write comedy, this book is a must-read. If you simply enjoy comedy ... this book is a must read. Part One offers essential advice about understanding the fundamentals of stand-up, studying other comedians, finding your own style, writing your material, working the live performance, and appearing on television. Fascinating, candid, insightful interviews with today's top comedians, who discuss at length why and how they do what they do, comprise Part Two, the bulk of the book. The third and last part of the book addresses your stand-up career through interviews with noted comedy club owners, an agent, a personal manager, and a television talent co-ordinator. Literally crammed with the wisdom of today's finest stand-up comics, in terms of quality, quantity, and timeliness information, this book is without peer.
Download or read book How to Be a Stand Up Comedian written by Simon Cavalli and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have You Ever Watch In Awe As Someone Performs Amazing Stand Up Comedy? Ever Thought If You Could Do The Same Thing? Do You Want To Make People Laugh Endlessly By Becoming A Stand Up Comedian? Why Stand Up Comedy? Being a stand up comedian is something which many people aspire to become. Stand up comedy has the tremendous effect of bring a lot of joy to other people. It is perhaps one of the greatest occupation in the world - bring people laughter in their lives. A stand up comedian is someone who simply goes on stage and share jokes. The jokes can come from different topics. Stand up comedy is perhaps the most creative form of entertainment. A stand up comedian requires a lot of guts in order to start off in the field in the very first place. Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Success In Stand Up Comedy? In How To Be A Stand Up Comedian - The Beginners Guide Towards Becoming A Successful Stand-up Comedian, you would learn a step by step method of starting out in stand up comedy. Simon Cavalli has written a guide on his journey of becoming a stand up comedian. It is filled with methods of preparing yourself mentally and how to approach a gig. Start Out As A Stand Up Comedian? The most important chapter is perhaps on how to approach being a stand up comedian for the first time. It involves having the right mindset to become a stand up. You would learn how to develop a stand up comedian mindset and to create a comic environment. You would also learn to debunk a great myth in stand up comedy - that stand up comedians are extroverts. Simon also shares why stand up comedy is a spiritual experience as well - a great journey of knowing yourself. You would learn what is important to you, what tickles your funny bone and how you relate to others. How To Be A Stand Up Comedian For Beginners If you are someone who has aspiration to become a stand up comedian but simply find it too tough to start, this guide would help you with the process of observing the stand up comedy masters as well. You would learn to develop a certain comedic personality and how to write great jokes based on them. You would learn how to build your joke and create a hilarious punchline. The aspiring stand up comedian would also learn how to test and polish their jokes. It includes a sub-chapter on "Tips That Would Help You Test Your Jokes" and "How Sitcoms Are Being Written". However, it doesn't stop there. You would learn how to present your jokes and to learn from the various performances. Finally, in the last chapter, Simon creates a checklist of what it takes to be a great stand up comedian. Before you start your first stand up comedy gig, be sure to go through this checklist. Stand Up Comedy For Dummies In short, How To Be A Stand Up Comedian is a great "stand up comedy how to" or the perfect "stand up comedy for dummies" book. If you are someone with great aspirations in stand up comedy, this book is a great starting point. In short this book would answer these common questions of aspiring stand up comedians: How To Prepare For The First Time In Becoming A Stand Up Comedian What Topics Should You Speak About That Would Get Great Responses How To Write Jokes For Stand Up Comedy How To Polish And Test Your Jokes If you want to know more about this book, click LOOK INSIDE to learn more about How To Be A Stand Up Comedian.
Download or read book A Vulgar Art written by Ian Brodie and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Vulgar Art, Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize—“literature” or “theatre”; “editorial” or “morality”—and analyze it accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh. So, this book takes the moment of performance as its focus, that stand-up comedy is a collaborative act between the comedian and the audience. Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains a profession. As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian's own community to gain larger and larger audiences. How do comedians recreate that atmosphere of intimacy in a roomful of strangers? This book regards everything from microphones to clothing and LPs to Twitter as strategies for bridging the spatial, temporal, and sociocultural distances between the performer and the audience.
Download or read book The Legacy of the Wisecrack written by Eddie Tafoya and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right to free expression, that monologists began appearing in American vaudeville halls. Yet even though it has since become an entertainment industry mainstay, stand-up comedy has received precious little scholarly attention. The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form looks at the theory of stand-up comedy, its literary dimensions, and its distinctly American qualities as it provides a detailed history of the forces that shaped it. The study concludes with a look at the works of specific comedians such as Steven Wright, whose three decades of performances comprise a single picaresque tale, and Richard Pryor, whose 1982 masterpiece Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip serves as modern America's answer to Dante Aligheri's epic poem, Inferno. The result is one of the first serious treatments of stand-up comedy as a literary form.
Download or read book Standing Up Speaking Out written by Matthew R. Meier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form’s capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy.
Download or read book The Standup Trainer written by Ellen C. Dowling and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like stage actors and standup comics, trainers perform before a live audience. This book shares theatrical secrets that can enliven learning and enhance presentation skills: how to move and gesture dramatically, how to deal with difficult audience members, and how to create and deliver humorous training material. If you've ever thought to yourself, "But the material I teach is so dry, there is no way I can make it interesting," then this book is definitely for you.
Download or read book Getting The Joke written by Oliver Double and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a brief history of the art form, the book goes on to examine the key elements, such as the comedian's stage persona, their material and how this is generated, the art of performance, their relationship to and interaction with the audience, and the development of stand-up skills.
Download or read book Stand Up Comedy written by Lawrence Finnegan and published by Communication Skills. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand-Up Comedy - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Make People Laugh, Body Language and Assertiveness. 1) MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH: 7 Easy Steps to Master Being Funny, Conversational Humor, Improv Stand-Up Comedy & Joke Writing. YOU'LL LEARN: - Timing isn't an important thing- it's the only thing; How to practice, improve and master the perfect time and place for any joke. - Why jokes work; the universal commonality that almost everything you might laugh at has in common - Why more than 50% of laughter you hear is not in response to intended humor; how to take advantage of that fact - The power of silence and the unspoken joke; physical humor beyond slapstick and props - And so much more! 2) BODY LANGUAGE: 7 Easy Steps to Master Nonverbal Communication, Reading People, Microexpressions & Improve Your Charisma. YOU'LL LEARN: - Body Language- posture, gesture, and personal space - Tone- pitch, mood, and inflection - Touch- the good, the bad, and the science - Eye Contact- king of nonverbal, master of the face - Charisma and Cold Reading explained And so much more! 3) ASSERTIVENESS: 7 Easy Steps to Master Assertive Social Confidence, Self-Esteem, Self-Awareness & Social Dynamics. YOU'LL LEARN: Boundaries not only keep you healthy but are crucial to the lesson Confidence in not only yourself but your ideas; practical lessons in developing it Preparation of these foundational practices will give you an edge Focus means never taking your eye off the prize; here is the breakdown Active listening isn't only looking aware but knowing others' perspective; here's how Validating others' feelings helps them and you; simple rules to keep in mind Compromise is strength; learn how to fuse, hybridize and weave ideas together And so much more!
