Standing Up, Speaking Out
Meier, Matthew R. / Schmitt, Casey R.
In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to the stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the p...