Стендап в современной массовой культуре отдельных стран постсоветского ареала
Stand-up in contemporary popular culture of post-Soviet space

Summary/Abstract: The article begins a cycle of publications dedicated to the topic of development of stand-up comedy genre in post-soviet space. General characteristic of stand-up as an entertaining genre and description of its main features are given and its place in contemporary popular culture is also considered. Stand-up is a comedian's performance in front of a live audience, which can participate in the performance through questions. Being an emotional reaction to everydayness, stand-up combines lateral manifestations of aesthetics with confession. The stand-up artist remains himself during the performance, and the key to his success is precisely his openness and honesty. Becoming a linguistic event in stand-up, jokes retain precious factual material and its interpretive field, created due to the stand-up artist being immersed in the topics he presents.

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