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Volume 11 Number 1
  • ISSN: 1756-4921
  • E-ISSN: 1756-493X

Abstract

Stand-up comedy has emerged as an immensely resonant youth-oriented pop-cultural form within the Indian landscape. This article studies the form and content of stand-up comedy to foreground its implicit banality. By analysing the subtleties of this banality, we argue that contemporary stand-up comedy has the capacity to produce a peculiar kind of enjoyment. The moment of laughter and the consequent enjoyment instills a sense of fleeting thought. This unintended contemplation, coupled with banality, has the potential to produce an enjoyment and a cultural form that can possibly resist complete appropriation.

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Keyword(s): banality; enjoyment; late modernity; laughter; stand-up comedy; youth
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