The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences

by Judy Batalion

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602352429
• ISBN13: 9781602352421
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Parlor Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"