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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... tion is self - typecasting . The one - sentence version of the theory of this book would state the claim that what is stood up in stand - up comedy is abjection . Stand - up makes vertical ( or ventral ) what should be horizontal ( or ...
... tion is self - typecasting . The one - sentence version of the theory of this book would state the claim that what is stood up in stand - up comedy is abjection . Stand - up makes vertical ( or ventral ) what should be horizontal ( or ...
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... tion , he is the abjection , the body that is repudiated yet keeps returning . He allows the body to speak regardless of his own self - interest ; when it returns in the form of a heart attack , he falls to the floor , sacrificing the ...
... tion , he is the abjection , the body that is repudiated yet keeps returning . He allows the body to speak regardless of his own self - interest ; when it returns in the form of a heart attack , he falls to the floor , sacrificing the ...
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... tion of the liminal , so that Mel Brooks's ur - joke is a logical deduction from a rotten nectarine . This is another way of putting the abjection theme , but it is also another way of putting the relevance of stand - up to the suburban ...
... tion of the liminal , so that Mel Brooks's ur - joke is a logical deduction from a rotten nectarine . This is another way of putting the abjection theme , but it is also another way of putting the relevance of stand - up to the suburban ...
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... tion is in the hegemony of unchanging attitude ) ; but the absence of jokes from that essay feels odd . I knew , by the time of my Pryor piece , that I had to discuss the form of a performance . I got lucky . The Pryor performance in ...
... tion is in the hegemony of unchanging attitude ) ; but the absence of jokes from that essay feels odd . I knew , by the time of my Pryor piece , that I had to discuss the form of a performance . I got lucky . The Pryor performance in ...
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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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