Stand-up Comedy in Theory, Or, Abjection in AmericaDuke University Press, 23. 6. 2000 - Počet stran: 152 Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond theories of the joke, of the comic, and of comedy in general to read stand-up through the lens of literary and cultural theory. Limon argues that stand-up is an artform best defined by its fascination with the abject, Julia Kristeva’s term for those aspects of oneself that are obnoxious to one’s sense of identity but that are nevertheless—like blood, feces, or urine—impossible to jettison once and for all. All of a comedian’s life, Limon asserts, is abject in this sense. Limon begins with stand-up comics in the 1950s and 1960s—Lenny Bruce, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Elaine May—when the norm of the profession was the Jewish, male, heterosexual comedian. He then moves toward the present with analyses of David Letterman, Richard Pryor, Ellen DeGeneres, and Paula Poundstone. Limon incorporates feminist, race, and queer theories to argue that the “comedification” of America—stand-up comedy’s escape from its narrow origins—involves the repossession by black, female, queer, and Protestant comedians of what was black, female, queer, yet suburbanizing in Jewish, male, heterosexual comedy. Limon’s formal definition of stand-up as abject art thus hinges on his claim that the great American comedians of the 1950s and 1960s located their comedy at the place (which would have been conceived in 1960 as a location between New York City or Chicago and their suburbs) where body is thrown off for the mind and materiality is thrown off for abstraction—at the place, that is, where American abjection has always found its home. |
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... Jewish heterosexual men formed the pool of American citizens that produced most American stand - up come- dians . According to one guess , 80 percent of nationally known stand - ups at the time were Jewish men ; that they were Jewish ...
... Jewish heterosexual men formed the pool of American citizens that produced most American stand - up come- dians . According to one guess , 80 percent of nationally known stand - ups at the time were Jewish men ; that they were Jewish ...
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... Jewish men . That many comedy sites were owned by Jews is of course true - but this would be a cultural and historical fact to be explained , not entirely dissimilar from the one that occupies us at the beginning of this study ...
... Jewish men . That many comedy sites were owned by Jews is of course true - but this would be a cultural and historical fact to be explained , not entirely dissimilar from the one that occupies us at the beginning of this study ...
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... Jewish stand - up success , but it is the cultural part of the story that first occurred to me , and I still vouch for it . It is the basis of the structure of this book : three essays on Jew- ish stand - up as it flourished for several ...
... Jewish stand - up success , but it is the cultural part of the story that first occurred to me , and I still vouch for it . It is the basis of the structure of this book : three essays on Jew- ish stand - up as it flourished for several ...
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John Limon. suburbanization for the story of stand - up's post - high Jewish continuation , but I could not think of one that did not seem to me banal or prophetic or false . It was at this impasse that the project turned theoretical ...
John Limon. suburbanization for the story of stand - up's post - high Jewish continuation , but I could not think of one that did not seem to me banal or prophetic or false . It was at this impasse that the project turned theoretical ...
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... Jewish male heterosexuals ever had it all to themselves . The solution to the paradox is how thoroughly Jewish male heterosexual comedians in 1960 were female , homosexual , black , and Christianizing . Mike Nichols and Elaine May were ...
... Jewish male heterosexuals ever had it all to themselves . The solution to the paradox is how thoroughly Jewish male heterosexual comedians in 1960 were female , homosexual , black , and Christianizing . Mike Nichols and Elaine May were ...
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Image A Lenny Bruce Joke and the Topography of StandUp | 11 |
Nectarines Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks | 28 |
Analytic of the Ridiculous Mike Nicholas and Elaine May | 50 |
Journey to the End of the Night David Letterman with Kristeva Celine Scorsese | 68 |
Scatology Richard Pryor in Concert | 83 |
Skirting Kidding Ellen DeGeneres and Paula Poundstone | 104 |
Notes | 125 |
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