Comedy and Controversy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009565356)

This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two breaks down, when stand-up enters - or is pushed - into the public sphere and is interpreted according to the scripts that govern popular political and media rhetoric rather than the traditional generic conventions of comic performance. These controversies raise a larger set of questions about the comedian's public role. They draw attention to the intention of jokes and their effects in the world. And they force us to consider how the limits of comic performance - what can be said, by whom, and why - respond to, and can reshape, public discourse across changing media contexts.

Author: Sarah Balkin, Marc Mierowsky
ISBN-10: 1009565354
ISBN-13: 9781009565356
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2025
Pages: 68
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d