Getting the Joke, 2nd edition, sets out to re-examine the world of stand-up comedy in the internet age, analysing the roles of the performer and audience, and the dramatic changes to how stand-up is done in recent years.
Oliver Double is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Kent, where his teaching on stand-up comedy has received national media attention. Once a stand-up comedian himself, Double ran and compered Sheffield's Last Laugh Comedy Club and has made numerous appearances on radio and television. He has written two books, Getting the Joke (Methuen Drama, 2005) and Stand Up: On Being A Comedian (Methuen Drama, 1997), as well as writing for various magazines and academic journals. He is a contributing editor to New Theatre Quarterly and is on the Advisory Board of Comedy Studies.
It is undeniable that Double’s investment in integrating stand-up
comedy into the theatre classroom and academic discourse is quite
serious indeed.
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