دانلود کتاب Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up

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Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nCONTENTS\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nINTRODUCTION\n ‘Alternative and unfunny’\n ‘Alternative comedy, though?’\n This book\nUK 1979\nPART ONE HISTORY OF EARLY ALTERNATIVE COMEDY\n CHAPTER 1 PREHISTORY: INFLUENCES AND ORIGINS\n ‘Look across the Atlantic’\n ‘Chubby blokes in their frilly shirts’\n ‘So much more erudite than Bernard Manning’\n ‘Neither a stand-up comic nor a stage-Scot’\n ‘He came just a bit too soon’\n ‘Playing directly to the audience like a comedian’\n ‘Does for humour what the Sex Pistols did for rock and roll’\n ‘There was this vacuum’\n CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNINGS OF ALTERNATIVE COMEDY\n The Comedy Store\n ‘A showcase for aspiring comic unknowns’\n Alternative Cabaret\n The Comic Strip\n ‘Revolutions by their very nature are not gradual’\n CHAPTER 3 THE SPREAD OF THE CIRCUIT\n Rooms above pubs\n CAST New Variety\n Agencies\n Festivals and tours\n ‘Briefly, I was the most successful stand-up comedian’\n ‘Rik and I did a season in Ibiza’\nPART TWO ALTERNATIVE COMEDY PERFORMANCE\n CHAPTER 4 ‘BITS OF ME HAVEN’T BEEN FINISHED YET’: REINVENTING STAND-UP FROM SCRATCH\n ‘Nobody really knew what they were doing’\n ‘You’re learning together’\n ‘Well that’s it!!’\n CHAPTER 5 ‘ANTI-MATTER COMEDY’: STYLISTIC INNOVATION\n ‘I’m fully aware my act is stupid’\n ‘These two Popes go into a bike shop’\n ‘A gooseberry in a lift’\n ‘Hardened criminals jumping out the fridge’\n ‘I could do anything I wanted’\n ‘I’ll laugh at that when I get home’\n CHAPTER 6 ‘ADVANCED SOCIAL THINKERS’: PERSONA AND PERSPECTIVE\n ‘You didn’t borrow stuff’\n ‘Replacement identity’\n ‘He was me but he wasn’t really’\n ‘I review the world’\n ‘Remember those articles?’\n ‘Public declaration of self’\n CHAPTER 7 ‘COMEDY OF DIRECT CONFRONTATION’: RELATING TO AUDIENCES\n Tony Allen comp è res the Comedy Store\n ‘What can I really say to flatten that bloke?’\n ‘Dent the prejudices of the audience’\n ‘Frontal assault’\n ‘On the brink of violence’\n ‘There’s no norms’\n CHAPTER 8 ‘I TELL JOKES WHICH PRECIPITATE THE DOWNFALL OF CAPITALIST SOCIETY’: POLITICS\n ‘Thatcher didn’t matter’\n ‘You can’t be racist and you can’t be sexist’\n ‘Entertainment with a left-wing agenda’\n ‘Sick political satire’\n ‘A plethora of benefit concerts’\n ‘Oh, you’re preaching to the converted’\n ‘Everything that happens has an effect’\nPART THREE LEGACY OF ALTERNATIVE COMEDY\n CHAPTER 9 ALTERNATIVE COMEDY NOW\n ‘A career structure about comedy’\n ‘No right-wing comedians at all’\n ‘Fuck Jongleurs’\n ‘The hairs did stand up on the back of your neck’\nNOTES\nREFERENCES\nINDEX