stand up comedy

STAND UP COMEDY ALLOWED OR NOT?

“Stand-up comedy is a comedic style. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. The performer is commonly known as a comic, stand-up comic, stand-up comedian or simply a stand-up. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television” (Oliver Double, 1997). In this kind of comedy the comedian usually recites a fast-paced succession of humorous stories, short jokes called "bits", and one-liners, which constitute what is typically called a monologue, routine or act. Everybody can do it with their own style and when we do that activity we can get sense of humor in our daily life. Therefore, stand-up comedy must be accepted in our country because it gives advantages for people.

Stand-up comedy serve us the new entertainment, this is very young entertainment in our country because it’s just known since 2010. Stand-up comedy makes us more relax with the joke and make people get interesting entertainment. “Some stand-up comedians use props, music or magic tricks to enhance their acts” (Wikipedia, 2012). Like Tzimis Panousis from Germany, he often encompasses stand-up comedy performances between his songs during live concerts and hge also use of profane language and his satirical comments. On the other hand, their satirical comment can hurt many people that they explain in their story or just name of one people that do worst things in their life. They can be shame of their self and in their neighborhood; they cannot faced their friend and other relatives.

“Stand-up is an art form that is openly devoted to getting immediate laughs from an audience above all else, unlike theatrical comedy which creates comedy within the structure of a play with amusing characters and situations” (Wikipedia, 2012). In stand-up comedy, comedian must have big strange to deliver his story because in Wikipedia I found that “stand-up comedy, feedback of the audience is instant and crucial for the comedian's act. Audiences expect a stand-up comic to provide a steady stream of laughs, and a performer is always under great pressure to deliver”. Stand-up comedy often centers on social and political satire, play on words or imitations. For example, Jean-Marie Bigard, whose heavy reliance on blue humor had him branded as a vulgar comedian at the beginning of his career. But, sometimes the stories in stand-up comedy have sense of sex that is not allowed for children or teenager. Parents always aware of things that related to their children and when they know that they children watch stand up show which is give bad effect for their children.

Based on the reason above, we can conclude that stand-up comedy can refresh our mind directly because it have sense of humor, funny joke and many else. Comedians give comment about politics or many other problems in our country, sometimes with satirical comment. All of their comment just for fun and entertain their audience because they just do that on the stage and it finish on the stage too. In stand-up comedy very needs feedback from the audience to prove that the audience like it, some of audience like the blue humor that serve by the comedians but this humor just for adult and not allowed for children. We can control what kind of show that our children watch and we never have to worried about them. Stand-up comedy just for fun, relax and refresh our mind and kind of stand-up comedy that we want to see can we manage and control it by our selve, so we do not have to worried at all.