K VYMEDZENIU STAND-UP COMEDY NA SLOVENSKU. GENOLOGICKÉ, SPOLOČENSKO-KULTÚRNE A JAZYKOVO-ŠTYLISTICKÉ ŠPECIFIKÁ

The boom of electronic media, which increased the availability of information, the speed of its distribution, and the options of its selection in an unprecedented way, is reflected in a fundamental way also in the genre preferences of the percipients. What is in demand are also, or especially, topical, short, apt pieces of communication, which are concentrated, and which bring a quick punchline. New dramatic genres that respond to these trends include the stand-up comedy concept, which spread in Slovakia in the early twenty-first century. This study sheds light on the contentual and formal structure of pieces of communication of the stand-up comedy type against a background of analyses of seventy Slovak stand-up performances. It defines the term itself, specifies the determining features of this new genre, which has not been complexly defined in Slovakia yet, and focuses on the characteristics of the forms of the comedy used, the thematic starting points of the stand-ups, and their genesis and development (abroad, too, but mainly in Slovakia). It places special emphasis on the analysis of its dominant stylistic and intonation features.