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This topic already has been brought up before in the archives, but the article still doesn't address the question of when this term originated. Dictionary.com states (without citing published examples) that the term dates from the 1960s. If that's true, then it has been applied retroactively, but even as such, it seems to carry an additional connotation of post-vaudeville. That is, vaudeville performers are usually not called stand-up comics (at least not on Wikipedia) even when they essentially did the same thing (Will Rogers), unless they continued long afterward (Moms Mabley). The term as used seems to coincide with the end of vaudeville and the emergence of television and LP records.
The references in this article are far too long. On my screen, the article takes up 37 pages, of which 15 consist of prose text and 22 of references. The references take up one and a half times as much space as the entire article they're providing references for. JIP | Talk 02:01, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
Idk about you all but the very foundations of comedy and what's viewed as a serious inquiry into the subject are ethnographic (headliner advice from experiential learning), so dialogue-like, hence the need for all the long citations of others' commentary on the subject, dictated from a non-primary source NurishmentForThinking (talk) 21:57, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
I propose that Stebbins' work applies directly to stand-up comedy and should be used as a guide in understanding stand-up (both the individual and the activity) (this process applies to the transition from amateur to expert).NurishmentForThinking (talk) 17:28, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
In the spirit of wp:bold I've gone through the page and tried to bring it back on-topic. I felt there was an excess of un-related information that was also not in wp:style. I'm not saying it's definitive but I feel there is a need for a re-start.WakeUpBoo (talk) 15:43, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
I'd like only to comment that the entry as it stands is obviously written by somebody who knows what he's talking about. I like that. In the 14th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica the article "mass production" was written by Henry Ford. It's the best thing I've ever read about mass production. I'd be willing to bet that today's Britannica has replaced it with something vastly more homogenized and vastly less instructive.
Alostlady (talk) 20:50, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Alostlady
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 13 June 2022 and 6 August 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Serenamonay (article contribs).
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