Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Majer, Tyler, Thesis advisor (ths): Brown, Stephen, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Loeb, Andrew, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis presents a critical history of stand-up comedy alongside rhetorical analyses of specific stand-up routines and performances to argue for stand-up's efficacy as a therapeutic artform. Through analysis of the history, function, and content of satire, this thesis presents stand-up comedy as an artform utilized for more than just simple laughter. Stand-up comedy, as a form… more Full Text: … invaluable feedback during the drafting process, as well as Hugh Hodges and Andrew Loeb for their work on the Thesis … in absentia are made at least provisionally vulnerable. As Hughley once put it, ‘you [white people] can take it for two … offend sensibilities of convention. In Looking for Lenny, Hugh Hefner states that, “Free Speech requires eternal …
