With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, THE LAUGHING STALK: LIVE COMEDY AND ITS AUDIENCES focuses on the dynamics of audience behavior. Performers, writers, historians, producers, and theorists explore the practice and reception of live comedy performance, including cultural and historical variations in comedy audience conduct, the reception of "low" versus "high" comedy, and the differences between televised and live jokes. Contributors reflect on the subjectivity of audience members and the spread of affect, as well as the two-way relationship between joker and listener. They investigate race, sexuality and gender in humor, and contemplate the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. THE LAUGHING STALK: LIVE COMEDY AND ITS AUDIENCES includes excerpts and scripts from Michael Frayne's AUDIENCE and Andrea Fraser's INAUGURAL SPEECH. Judy Batalion interviews noted comic writers, performers, and theater designers,...

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