Comedy and Controversy

Comedy and Controversy\n\nScripting Public Speech\n\nThis Element discusses epistemic, pragmatic, and historical perspectives on experimental control in the life sciences.\n\nSarah Balkin (Author), Marc Mierowsky (Author)\n\n9781009396806 (SKU 3293139), Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 30 January 2025\n\n68 pages\n23 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.117 kg\n\nThis is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two breaks down, when stand-up enters \u2013 or is pushed \u2013 into the public sphere and is interpreted according to the scripts that govern popular political and media rhetoric rather than the traditional generic conventions of comic performance. These controversies raise a larger set of questions about the comedian's public role. They draw attention to the intention of jokes and their effects in the world. And they force us to consider how the limits of comic performance ]