Oliver Double | |
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![]() Oliver Double in 2022 | |
Born | 22 May 1965 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Arts |
Sub-discipline | Comedy and Popular Performance |
Institutions | University of Kent |
Notable works | Stand-Up! On Being a Comedian (1997), Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up. (2020) |
Oliver Double (born 22 April 1965)[ citation needed] is a British stand-up comedian, author and academic. Since 1999, he has taught comic and popular performance at the University of Kent. [1] His current roles at the university are Reader in Drama and Theatre, and Head of Comedy and Popular Performance. [2] [3]
Double worked as a circuit comedian and founded the Last Laugh comedy club in Sheffield. [4] He continues to perform in his one-person shows Saint Pancreas [5] and Break a Leg and in a monthly comedy club called Funny Rabbit. [6]
He has written books on the subject including 1997's Stand Up! [7] and 2012's Britain Had Talent [8] as well as book chapters and articles about stand-up comedy, alternative comedy, [9] [10] [11] variety theatre and vaudeville [12]
Double contributed to the creation of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA) at Kent University's Templeman Library [13] [14] and he produced a monthly podcast about BSUCA called A History of Comedy in Several Objects. [15] [16]
He has appeared on TV programmes and documentaries discussing stand-up comedy, including BBC's Imagine and Horizon. [17] He has also appeared on numerous comedy podcasts including The Alexei Sayle Podcast where he discussed Bertolt Brecht [18] and Book Shambles where he discussed the history alternative comedy with Josie Long and Robin Ince. [18]
Double teaches practical performance [19] including stand-up comedy [20] based on research and many of his students have become professional comedians. [12]
In 2014 Double helped to establish the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA) at the University of Kent. [21] The archive's founding collection was the archive of comedian Linda Smith. [21] BSUCA has been actively acquiring material ever since, and now holds a wide variety of collections including material from Mark Thomas, Andy de la Tour, Josie Long, Funny Women, Harry Hill, and Jeremy Hardy. [21]
Double also deposited his own material into the archive; the Oliver Double Collection includes extensive audio-visual material (featuring interviews with many comedians), live recordings and show notes. [22]
Oliver Double | |
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![]() Oliver Double in 2022 | |
Born | 22 May 1965 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Arts |
Sub-discipline | Comedy and Popular Performance |
Institutions | University of Kent |
Notable works | Stand-Up! On Being a Comedian (1997), Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up. (2020) |
Oliver Double (born 22 April 1965)[ citation needed] is a British stand-up comedian, author and academic. Since 1999, he has taught comic and popular performance at the University of Kent. [1] His current roles at the university are Reader in Drama and Theatre, and Head of Comedy and Popular Performance. [2] [3]
Double worked as a circuit comedian and founded the Last Laugh comedy club in Sheffield. [4] He continues to perform in his one-person shows Saint Pancreas [5] and Break a Leg and in a monthly comedy club called Funny Rabbit. [6]
He has written books on the subject including 1997's Stand Up! [7] and 2012's Britain Had Talent [8] as well as book chapters and articles about stand-up comedy, alternative comedy, [9] [10] [11] variety theatre and vaudeville [12]
Double contributed to the creation of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA) at Kent University's Templeman Library [13] [14] and he produced a monthly podcast about BSUCA called A History of Comedy in Several Objects. [15] [16]
He has appeared on TV programmes and documentaries discussing stand-up comedy, including BBC's Imagine and Horizon. [17] He has also appeared on numerous comedy podcasts including The Alexei Sayle Podcast where he discussed Bertolt Brecht [18] and Book Shambles where he discussed the history alternative comedy with Josie Long and Robin Ince. [18]
Double teaches practical performance [19] including stand-up comedy [20] based on research and many of his students have become professional comedians. [12]
In 2014 Double helped to establish the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA) at the University of Kent. [21] The archive's founding collection was the archive of comedian Linda Smith. [21] BSUCA has been actively acquiring material ever since, and now holds a wide variety of collections including material from Mark Thomas, Andy de la Tour, Josie Long, Funny Women, Harry Hill, and Jeremy Hardy. [21]
Double also deposited his own material into the archive; the Oliver Double Collection includes extensive audio-visual material (featuring interviews with many comedians), live recordings and show notes. [22]