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| Acknowledgements | xi | |
| Foreword | xiii | |
| Introduction | xv | |
| 1 | The Secret of Stand-up Comedy | 19 |
| The Performance Imperative | 22 | |
| Working the Carriage | 26 | |
| Performance Dynamics | 27 | |
| Relationship to the Fourth Wall | ||
| Now and Then | ||
| Mugging and Mimicry | ||
| Timing the corpse | ||
| Corpsing | ||
| Much taboo about laughing | ||
| Kay at Hood | ||
| Frankle Howerd mugging | ||
| Good Friday at the Irish Centre | ||
| Attitude: Starting Out | 32 | |
| Stage time and making mistakes | ||
| Identity crisis | ||
| Defensive traits | ||
| The essential curl | ||
| Workshop | ||
| Discovering Attitude | 37 | |
| Jack Dee | ||
| Ronnie Rigsby | ||
| Attitude informs Material | ||
| List and curl | ||
| Arse-about-face | ||
| Hot seat - Performance mode | ||
| Structure - Giving it Form | 40 | |
| Word play - Puns and Wit | ||
| Rule of three | ||
| Cliches | ||
| Know Thyself | ||
| Taboo | ||
| Terry Alderton's Essex Man | ||
| Favourite Joke | ||
| Personal Argot | ||
| Obitulobe - Stanley Unwin | ||
| 2 | The History of Stand-up Comedy | 51 |
| The Storyteller, The Fool and the Shaman | 51 | |
| The first joke | ||
| The Danga to Archy | ||
| Commedia Dell'Arte | 55 | |
| Robert Armin - a speculation | 56 | |
| Fools in High Places | 58 | |
| Joseph Grimaldi and English Pantomime | 59 | |
| A Brief History of Burnt-cork Minstrelsy | 61 | |
| Jim Crow | ||
| The Musicians | ||
| The Format | ||
| Centenary | ||
| Victorian Music Hall | 62 | |
| Sing-a-long | ||
| The influence of Panto | ||
| Gus Elen | ||
| Dan Leno, Harry Champion, and Patter | ||
| Variety | ||
| Max Miller - Comic Attitude and Beyond | 66 | |
| Who Killed Variety? | ||
| Why are Eric and Ernie so Loveable? | 68 | |
| Lenny Bruce | 69 | |
| 3 | The Roots of Alternative Comedy | 73 |
| Oval House | ||
| Folk Clubs | ||
| Fringe Theatre | ||
| Comrade Thesp | ||
| Rough Theatre | ||
| The Benefit Circuit | ||
| Roadshow | ||
| Hippie Circus | ||
| Busking and Covent Garden | ||
| Speakers' Corner | ||
| Crutch Guitar Style | ||
| Traditional stand-up | ||
| Bernard Manning and racist comedy Post-Oval | ||
| Born Again Christians | ||
| Catharsis | ||
| Psychologically stripping | ||
| Audience terror | ||
| Here and Now | ||
| Oxford Poets | ||
| The Torness Occupation | ||
| Working Class Hero? | ||
| The Nose | ||
| The Walcot Beano Club | ||
| Comedy Store Audition | ||
| The Buskers' Concert | ||
| Attitude Elusive | ||
| Rock against Sexism | ||
| Midnight at the Comedy Store | ||
| St Hilda's Club | ||
| Comedy Store Again | ||
| The Early Days of the Comedy Store | 97 | |
| Alexei Sayle | ||
| Old Material | ||
| Hecklers | ||
| Inappropriate Material | ||
| Uppity Hillmans | ||
| The Liggers | ||
| The Management | ||
| Jim Barclay and Andy De la Tour | ||
| Wines and Spirits | ||
| Andrew Bailey | ||
| Bob Flag | ||
| Peter Wear | ||
| Clive Anderson | ||
| Lee Cornes | ||
| Arnold Brown | ||
| Waiting in the Wings: Keith Allen | ||
| Comedy Store Part Two - Anger Management | 102 | |
| Alternative Cabaret - Shouting, Swearing and Politics | 107 | |
| The Elgin | ||
| The clientele | ||
| Acts | ||
| My Subject Matter | ||
| Sexist shit | ||
| Swearing | ||
| Pauline Melville | ||
| Alexei Sayle | ||
| The last night | ||
| Wrongly attributed | ||
| Beyond the Rule of Three | ||
| Origins of Alternative? | ||
| Other venues | ||
| Telly | ||
| Sharon Landau | ||
| Edinburgh Festival | ||
| Provocateur and Raconteur | ||
| Brown rice and birhgt lights | ||
| Hindsight | ||
| Alternative ethos | ||
| Provocative comedy | ||
| Anarcho punk | ||
| Bill Hicks | 121 | |
| Comedians | 123 | |
| Mr Social Control | 126 | |
| Bespoken Word at the Manor | 127 | |
| What Comes Next? | 131 | |
| Altercation | 132 | |
| 4 | The Edge of Stand-up Comedy | 135 |
| Discovering my Clown - Tofu the Zany | 135 | |
| Rough edges | ||
| Daniel Rovai | ||
| Stripey Richard | ||
| Roadshow | ||
| Offal and Tofu | ||
| Portobello Precinct | ||
| Police and Thieves | ||
| Costume and make-up | ||
| Jerry Sadowitz | 142 | |
| Glastonbury Notes 1998 - Ian Cognito | 143 | |
| Tony Green as Sir Gideon Vein | 144 | |
| Glastonbury Notes 1998 - Rory Motion | 144 | |
| Golden Rules of Stand-up Comedy - Never do a gig on CS Gas | 145 | |
| The Summer of '93 - Benefit for Hackney Homeless | 147 | |
| The Ultimate Knob Joke at Forest Fayre - The Great Geek and Stompy 1993 | 148 | |
| Glastonbury Notes - 1993: The Contemporary Fool | 149 | |
| The Cutting Edge at the Comedy Store | 152 | |
| The Open Heart Cabaret | 156 | |
| Poetry Reading 1997 | 157 | |
| Ken Dodd died. Did he? No Doddy | 158 | |
| Obituary: David Sutch | 160 | |
| Lenny Bruce live at Basin Street West | 161 | |
| 5 | Post-Alternative Comedy | 163 |
| My Attitude | 163 | |
| The Grim Reapo Man is at the Door - Transcript | 165 | |
| Bibliography | 185 | |
| Index | 187 |
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Denise Mayes
reviewed Attitude - Wanna Make Something of It?: The Secret of Stand-up Comedy on November 23, 2014
Attitude - Wanna Make Something of It?: The Secret of Stand-up Comedy
Judge each by his own time, but even then this isn't that good. These guys were purporting to be rediscovering the art of comedy in the eighties. I'm not convinced that many of this generation would have got a look-in today. However, they did pioneer and create the circuits that we know today in the UK.
As for the subject. Yes, you do need an Attitude. It's called 'finding your voice'. It can take months or years. This guide might shave some time off that, or it might take you down the wrong path - I've seen that happen.
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