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Palgrave MacMillan Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy The Comic i 2015 Edition by S. Colleary
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. Table of contents :- Introduction; The Warm Up 1. The Trailblazers: Vaudeville, Music Hall and Hibernian Varieties 2. The Comic 'i' 3. Messages 4. Everybody Knows That the Dice is Loaded 5. Revenge of the Buckteeth Girl Final Remarks Appendix Bibliography Index