Women In Stand Up Comedy

Front 1

What the historical beginning of the modern day stand-up comic?

Back 1

The fools and jesters of ancient history.

Front 2

What is the formal definition of a fool?

Back 2

A marginalized individual who performs social critiques with impunity.

Front 3

What is a JAP?

Back 3

Jewish-American Princess

Front 4

What type of act is stand up comedy?

Back 4

Rhetorical

Front 5

What are examples of strategic self-representation?

Back 5

1. Ingration
2. Intimidation
3. Self Promotion
4. Exemplification
5. Supplication

Front 6

What are some strategies that women use in the political sphere?

Back 6

1. Deniers
2. Confrontational & Combative
3. Accomodate & alternate by the way of Compliance and Confrontation
4. Revisioning

Front 7

What are the five comedic postures?

Back 7

1. Kid
2. Bawd
3. Bitch
4. Whiner
5. Reporter

Front 8

What are some traits of the kid?

Back 8

• Non-threatening & Playful
• Endearing
• Observational & Asexual
• (Ellen DeGeneres; Baby Snooks; Paula Poundstone)
  

Front 9

What are some traits of the bawd?

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• Uses her sexuality
• Jewish/Ethnic
• Voluptuous
• Performs sexual material/Blue Humor
• (May West; Moms Mabely)
  

Front 10

How do bawds communicate their "bawdiness"?

Back 10

Tight, low-cut clothes, body language such as licking their lips, and sexualized walking.

Front 11

What are some traits of the bitch?

Back 11

Angry, dissatisfied, and unleashes her anger on the innocent masses. She is often bitter. She is a put-downer, and challenges societal norms. (Nicole Arbor, Joan Rivers)

Front 12

What is the Jewish American Princess?

Back 12

Materialistic, greedy, cold, and sometimes may withhold sex for personal gain. A Well-educated, middle-class woman.

Front 13

What are some traits of the whiner?

Back 13

Self-depricating humor, highlights inadequecies.

Front 14

What are some traits of the reporter?

Back 14

Observational, dissatisfaction of society. Non-Threatening, comedy is not framed by hostility and rage.

Front 15

What are the two forms of marginality?

Back 15

Sociolgical (Minorities) & Rhetorical (Celebrating Virtues; Smartass; Outsider)

Front 16

What is Victimage?

Back 16

Creating a victim with rhetorical intent.

Front 17

How would you acsertain the progressiveness or regressiveneness of stereotypes being used?

Back 17

Being a member of the group

Front 18

How do subjectify someone?

Back 18

To make them an object, and to deny their sensitivity, to dehumanize them.

Front 19

What is performance?

Back 19

actions of a comic onstage before a live audience.

Front 20

ZIP-COON

Back 20

• Derogatory term for an African-American male
• Flashy clothes
• Lazy
• Doesn't abide by the white man's rules

Front 21

CHITLIN CIRCUS

Back 21

• Black vaudeville
• performed in front of segregated black crowds
• "booking hard on black asses"

Front 22

Mom's Mabley

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• Grandma persona
• Benevolent woman
• "Eye for shady dealings"
• Wore tattered clothing
• Lusted after young men
• "I got something to say to you."
• "Queen of Sass"

Front 23

HOW TO GET READY

Back 23

• Men's inadequacies in the bed room
• "As long as she could run, she'll say what she wanted"

Front 24

RICHARD PRYOR

Back 24

• "Hauling Ass" (Running from slave masters)

Front 25

LAWRENCE LEVINE

Back 25

• Black culture and black consciousness

Front 26

MOM'S MABLEY CONTENT

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• Hair weaves
• integration
• assimilation
• pride in ethnicity or heritage
• Woman of Words
• Trickster
• Fool

Front 27

Whoopi Goldberg

Back 27

• Outcasts
• Stigmatized Others
• Marginalized Figures
• Heroic Characters
• Characters of Adversity

Front 28

Shortcomings

Back 28

• Physical
• Psychological

Front 29

Judy Tenuta

Back 29

• male ridicule
• insult comedy
• "Bitch" posture
• petite flower
• Duchess of Discipline
• giver goddess
• accordion
• mayhem
• anarchic
• transgression
• sexual
• coo/ululate

Front 30

Margaret Cho

Back 30

• Peeing Blood
• Weight Loss
• Chinese on TV

Front 31

How can abjection help shed light on Cho's experience?

Back 31

• Feelings of being displaced
• Abandonment (Finding Love "anywhere")

Front 32

Phyllis Diller

Back 32

• Fang
• Mother is Mobey Dick
• Lack of Sex appeal
• Peekaboo Blouse (Husband peeked and booed)
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Front 33

What is CAMP?

Back 33

• Love of the "unnatural"
• Camp sees everything in quotation marks

Front 34

What is ABJECTION?

Back 34

• Abjection is the psychic angst which comes from aspects of oneself one finds obnoxious, repugnant and vile but which are invariably a part of oneself

Front 35

Shazia Mirza

Back 35

• "Bum pinched in Mecca Story"
• Arranged Marriages "Sleeping with someone you don't know"
• Weapons of Mass Destruction - "look up the purdah"
• Suicide Bombings "Plane flights; having a day off"
• Crime Watch "Police are looking for a woman with brown eyes"
• Paki Go Home "Mom calling me for supper"

Front 36

Jewish Queens of Comedy

Back 36

Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, andPatsy Abbott,

Front 37

Horowitz's Queens of Comedy:

Back 37

Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers

Front 38

Key to a Stand Up Comedy Routine

Back 38

• Passion
• Precision
• Coherent Delivery

Front 39

Formula of Comedy

Back 39

• The set up and the punch
  
• The Set Up Must contain an attitude