General Interest

Audience Address Comedy is like any other commodity – it can me marketed. And like any market the style must suit the targeted audience. The approach to a television show like ‘Carrott’s Lib’ is different from that of his theatre shows and different again from the form used in his books. The greatest difference between […]

Sentences As has been shown in the preceding posts, there are a number of differences between the written and spoken material. in this section I shall look purely at the words used and how they are strung together. A table of all the grammatical statistics can be found in appendix E – Grammatical statistics. To

Conclusion Based on this study of Jasper Carrott’s ‘Mother-in-Law / Learner Driver’ sketch I can conclude that his delivery has indeed become much more polished with time. In conjunction with intonation, gestures and use of accents, his final act sis so well rehearsed that, grammatically, it is as highly structured as the version found in

Appendix A : Key to the notation forms used in the transcriptions (.) Pause of a second or less (#) Pause of greater than 1 second. Duration gives (i.e. (3) for three-second pause). (J.#) Deliberate pause to prompt audience response or laughter (*#) Duration of audience laughter (J*#) Duration of audience laughter, initiated by Jasper