Stand‐Up Nation: Humor and American Identity

Gillota, David

doi:10.1111/jacc.12301

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“…13 The choice of the study material was governed by both scholarly and practical issues. In the first place, stand-up comedy has thus far been analyzed from a variety of angles (e.g., Prussing-Hollowell 2008;Gillota 2015) amongst which a linguistic analysis (Schwarz 2010), not to mention semantic analysis (e.g., Seizer 2011), is by far underrepresented. This paper thus seeks to fill this void in scholarly endeavors, focusing on stand-up routines in which a specific relationship between the comedian and the audience has an impact on what is considered impolite or rude (Locher & Watts 2005).…”

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Dissecting the Word: The Use of the LexemeShitin Selected Performances of Comedian Dave Chappelle’s Stand-Up Routine

Dylewski

2021

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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The paper explores the use of the lexeme shit in the corpus of Dave Chappelle’s stand-up specials released between 2000 and 2019. It consists of two parts: theoretical and analytical. The first one presents theoretical and pragmatic considerations connected with stand-up routines, touches upon slang semantics, and depicts the links between Dave Chappelle’s stage persona and the hip hop community. Lastly, it presents the reader with the past and present-day status of the lexeme at issue. In the analytical section of the paper the use of shit in the aforesaid corpus is scrutinized from the semantic angle. The discussion is supplemented with the results culled from the corpus of rap lyrics compiled at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The paper argues that (i) shit has lost its taboo status and is mainly used in both corpora as a less formal equivalent of stuff, anything and something and (ii) Chappelle’s stage use of shit, even though present in a different context and serving context-specific purposes, corresponds to the use of African American rappers in their song lyrics (assuming that rap lyrics depict African American English, this conclusion can be extended to the sociolect of African Americans).

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Dissecting the Word: The Use of the LexemeShitin Selected Performances of Comedian Dave Chappelle’s Stand-Up Routine

Dylewski

2021

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“…Scholars compare his work to the likes of Jim Norton, Neil Hamburger, or Anthony Jeselnik. David Gillota, for example, argues that while many comedians use their comedy as a vehicle for driving social commentary, “Other figures, like Jim Norton, Daniel Tosh, or Carlos Mencia, rely more on shock value than on social commentary to drive their humor” (105). While Gillota's point is generally true of many shock comics, Tosh's use of shocking material and his social commentary cannot be teased out so neatly.…”

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