ON AMERICAN AND INDONESIAN STAND-UP COMEDY: WHAT DO YOU SEE IN WOMEN?
| Main Authors: | Masithoh Azzahro Lutfiasari; Mahasiswa, Nurenzia Yannuar; Dosen |
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| Format: | PeerReviewed |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2014
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| Online Access: |
http://karya-ilmiah.um.ac.id/index.php/sastra-inggris/article/view/37555 |
Daftar Isi:
- ABSTRACT Stand-up comedy has been receiving massive rave in Indonesia since it was introduced in the late 2011. As a branch of comedy, stand-up comedy breathes a new life to substitute the reign of slapstick comedy in Indonesian television. Comparing Indonesian stand-up comedy to its American counterparts, this study attempts to discover women over-sexualization leading to gender stereotype present in the narrative of stand-up comedy performance, from the perspectives of feminism and popular culture theories. This study only focused in the stand-comedy performances that are featured on one YouTube channel from the U.S., The Laugh Factory, and ones that are broadcast by KompasTV Indonesia in the program Stand-Up Comedy Indonesia. This study uses descriptive qualitative study and functions content analysis approach to examine the collected data. The phenomena of women over-sexualization and gender stereotyping apparent in stand-comedy narratives is discussed in the analysis, in the hope of contributing to the study of social science and literary criticism. The researcher selected 20 videos of stand-up comedy performance from Stand-Up Comedy Indonesia and The Laugh Factory, downloaded from YouTube. To specify the analysis, the researcher then sorted out the videos until there are only ten videos to be analyzed; each of them contains women over-sexualization and gender stereotyping material brought by the comics. The study shows that all the comics presented in the discussion used women sexuality as their theme of performance. Other than that, the discussion showed that the gender stereotypes apparent in the narratives are included in the four aspects of gender stereotyping formulated by Deaux and Lewis (1984), with two stereotypes fall in the aspect of traits; four in the aspect of physical characteristics; three in the aspect of occupations; and one in the aspect of behavior. The researcher also found that there are similarities between American and Indonesian stand-up comedy narratives which are the women sexuality theme, objectification of female character in the narratives, and the anthropomorphism used in the narratives. There is also a difference found in the American and Indonesian stand-up comedy narratives that is the blatancy of the diction used by the comics. Women are often seen as sexual object to men, as stated by de Beauvoir (1949), and that is exactly the case in the narrative of stand-up comedy discussed in this study. This study aims to show people in general that to become an established comics in the business of stand-up comedy both in the U.S. and Indonesia, one does have option in picking themes other than laughing at women’s sexuality and objectifying them to bring mutual laughter to the audience.