Author: Marianna Keisalo

Marianna Keisalo is an anthropologist interested in the semiotics of comedic performance. She received a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki in 2011. Her dissertation was a study of the Chapayeka clowns that represent Judas in the Easter ritual of the Yaquis in Northern Mexico. She is currently studying (and performing) stand-up comedy in Finland and teaching at the University of Helsinki.

Marianna Keisalo

Learning to Make People Laugh: A Semiotic Anthropology of Stand-up Comedy

April, 2016 / By Marianna Keisalo

The Open-Mic Anthropologist The first time I performed stand-up comedy was in December 2015, at an open-mic club called On […]