Performance And Identity In Irish Stand-Up Comedy: The Comic 'I'

One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins.

• | Author: S. Colleary
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 28, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137343893
• | ISBN-13: 9781137343895