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      Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change

      Standing Up, Speaking Out

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      Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change
      Edited ByMatthew R. Meier, Casey R. Schmitt
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 3 November 2016
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315657738
      Pages 284
      eBook ISBN 9781315657738
      Subjects Humanities
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      Meier, M.R., & Schmitt, C.R. (Eds.). (2016). Standing Up, Speaking Out: Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315657738

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I Stand-Up and Identity

      chapter 1|17 pages

      “You Gotta Get Chinky with It!”: Margaret Cho’s Rhetorical Use of Humor to Communicate Cultural Identity

      ByLacy Lowrey, Valerie R. Renegar

      chapter 2|20 pages

      If Laughs Could Kill: Eddie Izzard and the Queer Art of Comedy

      ByChristopher J. Gilbert

      chapter 3|17 pages

      “No Damn Mammy, Moms!”: Rhetorical Re-invention in the Stand-up Comedy of Jackie “Moms” Mabley

      ByAbbey Morgan

      chapter |12 pages

      Response Laughing at Others: The Rhetoric of Marginalized Comic Identity

      ByJoanne Gilbert

      part |2 pages

      Part II Stand-Up, Race, and Culture

      chapter 4|21 pages

      Rhetoric of Racial Ridicule in an Era of Racial Protest: Don Rickles, the “Equal Opportunity Offender” Strategy, and the Civil Rights Movement

      ByRaúl Pérez

      chapter 5|19 pages

      “Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One of Them?”: Whiteness, Stand-Up, and Lenny Bruce

      ByMatthew R. Meier, Chad M. Nelson

      chapter 6|14 pages

      Teasing the Funny: Native American Stand-Up Comedy in the 21st Century

      ByAmanda Morris

      chapter |8 pages

      Response From Insult to Reflection: Stand-Up Comedy and Cultural Pedagogy

      ByAlberto González

      part |2 pages

      Part III Stand-Up and Politics

      chapter 7|17 pages

      The Comedic Prince: The Organic Intellectualism of Bill Hicks

      ByAaron Duncan, Jonathan Carter

      chapter 8|16 pages

      What’s the Deal with Liberals?: The Discursive Construction of Partisan Political Identities in Conservative Stand-Up Comedy

      ByRon Von Burg, Kai Heidemann

      chapter 9|17 pages

      Live from DC, It’s “Nerd Prom”: Political Humor at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner

      ByJonathan P. Rossing

      chapter |8 pages

      Response Wise Fools: The Politics of Comedic Audiences

      part |2 pages

      Part IV Standing Up, Breaking Rules

      chapter 10|18 pages

      How Can Rape Be Funny?: Comic Persona, Irony, and the Limits of Rape Jokes

      ByChristopher A. Medjesky

      chapter 11|10 pages

      Louie C.K.’s “Weird Ethic”: Kairos and Rhetoric in the Network

      ByJames J. Brown, Jr.

      chapter 12|14 pages

      Late Night Apologia: A Critical Analysis of David Letterman’s On-Air Revelation

      ByCasey R. Schmitt

      chapter |12 pages

      Response Returning the Favor: Ludic Space, Comedians, and the Rhetorical Constitution of Society

      ByStephen Olbrys Gencarella
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