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The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
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This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially
inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin
Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who
perform comedy, join together to contemplate the paradoxical
relationship between tragedy and comedy and expose
over-generalizations about comic performers' troubled childhoods,
addictions, and mental illnesses. The book is divided into two
sections. First, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore
comedians' onstage performances, their offstage lives, and the
relationship between the two. The second half of the book focuses
on amateur and lesser-known professional comedians who reveal the
struggles they face as they attempt to hone successful comedy acts
and likable comic personae. The goal of this collection is to move
beyond the hackneyed stereotype of the sad clown in order to reveal
how stand-up comedy can transform both personal and collective
tragedies by providing catharsis through humor.
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