Authors: Patrice A. Oppliger, Eric Shouse
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-10 - Publisher: Springer Nature
This book focuses on the “dark side” of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who perform comedy, join together to contemplate the paradoxical relationship between tragedy and comedy and expose over-generalizations about comic performers’