Performance and identity in Irish stand-up comedy : the comic 'i' / Susanne Colleary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colleary, Susanne, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stand-up comedy--Ireland.

Stand-up comedy.

Comedians--Ireland.

Comedians.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

vii, 209 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy examines the comic tradition of stand-up in and from modern-day Ireland. Using critical analyses of comedians including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins, Susanne Colleary's engaging new book explores the role of stand-up in contemporary culture and examines the role of the staged comic self in performance. This book is suitable for students and scholars of international performance, and general readers interested in the interplay between comedy and society in contemporary cultural thought. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Trailblazers: Vaudeville, Music Hall and Hibernian Varieties 10

1.1 A brief history: vaudeville to stand-up 10

1.2 A brief history: music hall to stand-up 16

1.3 Hibernian varieties 22

1.4 Stand-Up: alternative Hibernia 34

2 The Comic 'i' 41

2.1 Stand-Up - the personal dimension 41

2.2 The storied self 43

2.3 Comic strips 47

2.4 The comic 'i' 53

2.5 Comic heterotopias 58

2.6 Comic 'i'dentity 63

3 Messages 67

3.1 Messenger from the other side 67

3.2 Messenger to the other side 76

3.3 Mixed messages 86

3.4 The messenger 94

3.5 The comic 'i' 98

4 Everybody Knows That The Dice Are Loaded 104

4.1 'Please help - I have no sense of self' 104

4.2 'Sorry? Ha! - You make me sick - Put some clothes on' 112

4.3 'Death needs you' 120

4.4 The comic 'i' 128

5 Revenge of the Buckteeth Girl 134

5.1 Revenge 134

5.2 'If you're fat, just like be fat and shut up. And if you're thin, - fuck you!' 141

5.3 Maeve Higgins does not scare men 149

5.4 Male periods 154

5.5 The comic 'i' 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137343895

1137343893

OCLC:

887848145