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This essay investigates the cathartic creative process of standup comic Stewart Huff, as he transforms a painful meeting with a bigot in a bar in Aiken SC into the stuff of comedy. This transformation from horror to humor is an empowering performative for both the artist and the comedy club audience.
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This page is a summary of: Dialogic catharsis in standup comedy: Stewart Huff plays a bigot, Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/humor-2016-0026.
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