Comments on: Learning to Make People Laugh: A Semiotic Anthropology of Stand-up Comedy https://allegralaboratory.net/learning-to-make-people-laugh-a-semiotic-anthropology-of-stand-up-comedy/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Sun, 01 May 2016 13:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Marianna Keisalo https://allegralaboratory.net/learning-to-make-people-laugh-a-semiotic-anthropology-of-stand-up-comedy/#comment-78128 Sun, 01 May 2016 13:33:48 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=19340#comment-78128 In reply to Steven Gardiner.

Hi Steven! Thanks for the shout out, very interesting to hear that there are others out there 🙂 I would also be interested in reading your work – I’m also on academia.edu

]]> By: Steven Gardiner https://allegralaboratory.net/learning-to-make-people-laugh-a-semiotic-anthropology-of-stand-up-comedy/#comment-78083 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:05:46 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=19340#comment-78083 Hey Marianna! Here is a shout out from another anthropologist doing stand-up ethnography, in my case in the U.S., mostly in the local mic scene in a mid-sized American city. Your article provoked a kind of uncanny reaction–the, oh yeah, don’t I know response. I have performed at open mics, written and re-written dozens of bits, and know what you mean by a “tough crowd” (i.e. an audience full of comics waiting for their turn at the mic–often comics who have heard twenty versions of an evolving routine). This is a second area of research for me–my primary area is military/veteran cultures, though I’m just finishing up a cross-over piece on military humor, that took took up as a counterpoint. I’ll look for your stuff!

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