Taking a stand : contemporary US stand-up comedians as public intellectuals / edited by Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Champion, Jared N., editor.

Kunze, Peter C. (Peter Christopher), editor.

Series:

Mississippi scholarship online.

Mississippi scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stand-up comedy--United States--History and criticism.

Stand-up comedy.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

United States--Intellectual life--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) ;

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.

Summary:

This title draws together essays that contribute to the analysis of the stand-up-comedian-as-public intellectual since the 1980s. The chapters explore stand-up comedians as contributors to and shapers of public discourse via their live performances, podcasts, social media presence, and political activism.

Contents:

Introduction: Laughing out loud: stand-up comedians in the public sphere / Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze

Mo'nique: con woman and sister citizen in I Coulda Been Your Cellmate / Linda Mizejewski

Scorched earth stand-up: laughing off wounded warriors with the humor of Bobby Henline / Christopher J. Gilbert

Maria Bamford: a/way with words / Rebecca Krefting

Awkward embrace: Tig Notaro and the humor of social discomfort / Kathryn Kein

Comedy from the intersections: Chris Rock on class and race / Philip Scepanski

White comedians, strategic racist humor, and the (re)normalization of racism: Lisa Lampanelli as a case study / Raúl Perez

Leguizamo's comic frame: identity and the art of impersonation / Miriam M. Chirico

"Of course, but maybe": Louis C.K. and the contradictory politics of privilege / David Gillota

Jerry Seinfeld versus PC social media: professional dissonanace and the public intellectual as gatekeeper / Timothy J. Viator

Standing flat-footed and talking: W. Kamau Bell talks race in an age of "post-race" / Monique Taylor

Smartphone sociology: Aziz Ansari on intimacy in the twenty-first century / Ila Tyagi

Stewart Huff, P.I.: intellectual at large / Susan Seizer and Aviva Orenstein

Larry the Cable Guy: the anti-political correctness public intellectual / David R. Dewberry

"Killer closer": Doug Stanhope and the white liberatarian stand-up tradition / Thomas Clark

The comedian as preacher: Bill Hicks and the rhetoric of fundamentalism / Rob King.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4968-3548-4

OCLC:

1266197595