SECTION I: THE RHETORICAL POTENTIALS OF STAND UP
1. Late Night Apologia: A Critical Analysis of David Letterman’s October 1st, 2009 On-Air Revelation-Confession – Casey R. Schmitt (collection co-editor)
2. Rhetoric of Racial Ridicule in an Era of Racial Protest: Don Rickles, the "Equal Opportunity Offender" Strategy, and the Civil Rights Movement – Raúl Pérez
3. What's the Deal with Liberals?: The Discursive Construction of Partisan Political Identities in Conservative Stand-Up Comedy - Ron Von Burg & Kai Heidemann
4. The Comedic Prince: The Organic Intellectualism of Bill Hicks – Aaron Duncan & Jonathan Carter
5. When Can Rape Be Funny?: The Limits of Dark Humor and the Rhetoric Daniel Tosh’s Rape Joke - Christopher Medjesky
6. "Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One of Them?" Whiteness, Stand-Up and Lenny Bruce – Matthew R. Meier (collection co-editor) & Chad M. Nelson
RESPONSE: Stephen Olbrys Gencarella, University of Massachusetts Amherst
SECTION II: STAND-UP AS A SITE OF INTERVENTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
7. "No Damn Mammy, Moms!" Rhetorical Re-invention in the Stand-up Comedy of Jackie "Moms" Mabley – Abbey Morgan
8. Teasing the Funny: Native American Stand-Up Comedy in the 21st Century – Amanda Morris
9. "You Gotta Get Chinky with It!": Margaret Cho’s Rhetorical Use of Humor to Communicate Cultural Identity – Lacy Lowrey & Valerie Renegar
10. If Laughs Could Kill: Eddie Izzard and the Queer Art of Comedy – Christopher Gilbert
11. Humor as an Activist Style: Dick Gregory and the Civil Rights Movement – Jonathan P. Rossing
12. Louis C.K.'s "Weird Ethic": Kairos and Rhetoric in the Network - Jim Brown
RESPONSE: Alberto González, Bowling Green State University
CONCLUSION: [To be titled] – Joanne Gilbert, Alma College
INDEX
Matthew R. Meier is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
at West Chester University in West Chester, PA.
Casey R. Schmitt is an Assistant Professor of Communication at
Lakeland College in Howards Grove, WI.
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