Verbalisation of ethnocultural stereotypes in Stand-up comedy of modern American comedians of Indian origin by A.A. Muradyan, M.O. Solonenko

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The Empty Stage in Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning, Girlie Show, and Two Comedians by Philip Smith

“…This paper seeks to argue that Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning (1930), Girlie Show (1941), and Two Comedians (1966) all show interest in the ephemerality of stage art. …”
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SILENT COMEDIANS. THE OLSZTYN PANTOMIME OF DEAF (1957–2009). IN SEARCH OF A NEW AESTHETIC OF EXPRESSION by SOKOŁOWSKI MAREK

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When Touch Is Refused or Accepted in Art: A Comparison of Van Gogh’s The Sunflowers and Maurizio Cattelan’s The Comedian by Ying Wu

“…When confronted by visitors’ hands, The Sunflowers and The Comedian represent contrasting attitudes. This divergence is determined by differences in their modes of existence, durations, irreproducibilities, and ways of being experienced. …”
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Stand-up preaching by W. Wessels

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When I grow up I want to be a comedian! assessing the impact of comedy and laughter training on the emotional and social wellbeing of schoolchildren by Cathal O'Siochru

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The Effect of Street Theater on the Kurdish Theater Movement by Zhilwan Tahir Bapir, Kaify Ahmed Abdulqadir

Subjects: “…street theater, improvisational representation, open space, actor, receiver, tragic, comedian.…”
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« D’une voix dégagée… » by Christine Savinel

Subjects: “…The Comedian at the letter C…”
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Les comédiens de stand-up et la preuve par le rire : le récit comme acte cognitif dans Star Wars Canteen 1 & 2 d’Eddie Izzard* by Guillemette Bolens

“…A stand-up comedian is a person whose action consists in standing on stage to trigger laughter by telling stories. …”
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La religion de Madame Riccoboni dans sa correspondance by Marie–Pierre Legrand

“…Daughter of a man judged for bigamy, hidden in a convent as illegitimate child, then comedian when Church excommunicated comedians, Mme Riccoboni was an acquaintance of Marivaux and Luigi Riccoboni’s daughter in law and on the other hand, she was attending the d’Holbach’s salon, nest of atheists.…”
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I frammenti di Ofelione comico (PCG VII, 97-99) by Menico Caroli

“…Attic comedian from the 4th cent. BC., Ophelion is unfairly classified as ‘minor poet’ of Middle Comedy. …”

Du blog aux places d’Italie : le cas de Beppe Grillo et du V-Day by Giovanna di Rosario

“…This article aims at relating the socio-political event of V-Day in Italy, proposed and sponsored by the Italian comedian Beppe Grillo through his blog. Italian politics (the “casta”) seems to be afraid of the blogger and is seeking, by law, to make it difficult to publish blogs.…”
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Does Sense of the Humor Make Sense in the Classroom? by Freddy Antonio González-Ynfante

“…The idea is not for teachers to play the role of a comedian or a clown, but to intervene and get closer to the group with a teaching, didactic purpose through humor. …”
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Els adjectius expressius del català by Xavier Villalba

“…This article offers the first complete formal description of the pragmatic and syntactic properties of expressive adjectives in Catalan, such as fotut -da (Ets un fotut comediant «You're a fucking comedian») or puto -a (Això és una puta mentida «That's a fucking lie»). …”
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A-t-on le droit de rigoler bêtement en France ?L’évaluation (trop) sérieuse des comédies de Will Ferrell by Antoine Gaudé

“…This article will analyze the press, the criticism, and Internet forums, as ways to understand the social and cognition construction of the evaluation of the 54-year-old comedian’s movies. Laughter, more than any other cinematic pleasure, is transcultural and transnational. …”
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Prendre position face à des auditoires hétérogènes : le cas du stand-up by Ruggero Druetta

“…It also highlights the crucial role of the enunciative pact that governs this form of performance, granting the stand-up comedian, among other things, the systematic posture of “over-enunciation” (i.e. high-up perspective) in relation to other points of view represented in his discourse.…”
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Critical Reflections on Time and Capitalism by Thomas Klikauer

“…In that, Hope’s analysis goes well beyond the famous quote on time by the comedian Dave Allen “we spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. …”
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Jak człowiek Becketta zrodził się z Keatona, czyli absurdalna Księga Rodzaju by Paulina Malczewska

“…Keaton – the deadpan comedian from his serious comedies and Samuel Beckett – the creator of the theatre where lack of action forms the bulk of the action both entered the field of eschatological reflections while contradicting the form they both had been using. …”
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Political In Between: Streaming Stand-Up Comedy and Feminist Reckoning in Contemporary Mainland China by Shaoyu Tang

“…Based on seven-month participant observation in comedy clubs in mainland China, I analyze comments and criticism toward women stand-up comedians and offer textual analyses of comedians’ performances in a popular online variety show, Roast & Rock. …”
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Afropolitan Influence: Gender, Comedy, and Social Media in Global Africa by Robin K. Crigler

“…While social media affords autonomy to performers, success as a comedian-influencer demands more from women than jokes. …”
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