No espetáculo do riso : uma abordagem etnográfica da comédia stand-up

Abstract

Supported by the Classic Laugh and Humor Theories as background, according the approach of the anthropology of performance and the ethnographic work carried out in a comedy club in São Paulo city, this work aims to understand the construction of the comic in stand-up comedy performance through three areas of analysis, namely: 1) local relations, text and scenario; 2) the oral narrative as bases of stand-up comedy; 3) the public as counterpart. Seeking to bring out the humorous experience, seated in the performer-space-audience triad, this study brings, in ethnographic narrative, elements that influence and build the stand-up comedy into its scenic context, such as the environment, interactions of the audience and extra scenic components, which act as an emergency supports of the comic genre. It also discusses about the comedian training, aesthetic limitation, the textual production, live scenes and other elements, in order to the compression of the laughter and the stand-up performance. In turn, the audience laughter, as a comedian purpose and expectation of the public, emerges from the negotiations between the present, whose narratives outweigh the telling of jokes and laughter comes over as part of the scene than simply as a result of the jokes.