A Comedy to Go Please

What's Stand up Comedy? It is not only a guy standing up for 2 hours talking about the fun part of life. It is actually a way of art that goes far beyond this century, it started on the club's on the USA, that where called the comedy club's. It continued expanding, more clubs where engaged in the business and TV started producing this shows. During the 1990's this art faced death when they where so famous and pretty much everywhere that comedians started resigning and viewers started to think of it as a normal thing. This was saved by the alternative type of stand up comedy which instead of a guy telling jokes, it became a monologue or a one person performance on stage. 

Acting a comedy such as the Cherry Orchard is just and inventive way to put more performers on the already known stand up comedy. It is not only one guy acting his jokes but many people falling into them and adding content. For example we can see how people will laugh with scenes such as this one, in which two actors make people laugh. 

In this scene we see how the characters use a common thing such as menopause to make people laugh about themselves which is the true meaning of a comedy.

In the Cherry Orchard, we see how Chekhov uses something simple as a marriage, a rent and a apparently crazy women to make the readers laugh at the situations this people where living through. It is true that it can be sad to sell your childhood memory to pay a bill, but when Chekhov plays with the emotions of the situation and says things such as "Now I am at peace, I am at peace" (Chekhov 343) he makes people think about how terrible situation can bring fun to your life, like when you are on a stand up comedy and laugh about the performance this guy or lady does.

Acting a comedy is a new way in which stand up comedy reflects to our society that each day is looking for more ways to entertain on the expenses of our sadness. 

Gabriela