The Politics of British Stand-up Comedy The New Alternative /

• Main Author: Quirk, Sophie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
• Subjects: Comedy.; Popular Culture.; Motion picture acting.; Comedy Studies.; Popular Culture .; Screen Performance.

This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other. The Alternative Comedy Movement of the late 1970s and 1980s can be described as a time of unruly experimentation and left-wing radicalism. This boo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. "Where Are All the Right-Wing Comedians?"
• 3. Political Challenges of the Millennial Era
• 4. Experimentation: Class, Controversy and an Artistic Lifeline
• 5. Conclusion: Widening the Theoretical Basis for Assessing Stand-Up Politics.