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Microphone, Spotlight & Twitter

Oliver Double, University of Kent

The Stand-Up Comedy

of the Future

Stand-Up & Technology: History‘Stand-up comedy is a fundamentally old-fashioned, labor-intensive, low-tech performance mode...The microphone and spotlight are the only necessary technologies; the human presence remains paramount.’

- Philip Auslander, 1992

The human presence remains paramount?

Stand-Up & Technology: Now

Stand-Up & Technology: Now

Tiernan Douieb’s Twitter Comedy Club

Stand-Up & Technology: Now

Dane Cook on Facebook

Stand-Up & Technology: Now

Jimmy Carr in Second Life

Stand-Up & Technology: Now

Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor (Tomorrowland, Walt Disney World Resort, Florida)

Stand-Up & Technology: Now

Howard Read & Little Howard

‘Little Howard started off as...a satire of “Is it possible to mechanise improvisation?”...Everything Little Howard said originally...was pre-recorded. And there would be an “any questions” section. So people could ask any question at all, and Little Howard would answer it, and it was all pre-recorded. And for me it was an intellectual exercise and a sort of a slightly highbrow, snooty poke at people who pretended to improvise...No-one just improvises an entire set. People think we do and that’s why people think we’re brilliant, [whispers] but we’re not.’

- Howard Read

Thank you and Goodnight

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