Performance and identity in Irish stand-up comedy : the comic 'i' /
By: Colleary, Susanne.
Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: vii, 209 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137343895; 9781137343895:; 1137343893.Subject(s): Stand-up comedy -- Ireland | Comedians -- IrelandDDC classification: 792.7609415 COLItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 : the trailblazers : vaudeville, music hall and Hibernian varieties -- 2 : the comic 'i' -- 3 : messages -- 4 : everybody knows that the dice are loaded -- 3 : revenge of the buckteeth girl -- Final remarks -- Appendix : biographies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins.