Abu Yazid Busthami. 2016. Analysis of Laughter-Causing Utterances in Stand-up Comedy Show. Thesis. English Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teachers Training,
Antasari State University for Islamic Studies.
Advisor: DR. Saifuddin Ahmad Husin, M.A and Puji
Sri Rahayu, M.A.
Keywords : Semantic, Pragmatic, Humor, Stand-up Comedy
Humor has been described as a condition for humanity and part of
human cultural universals. Humor or joke cannot be separated from
language because it must be conveyed through it. Afterwards, this research
aimed to understand humor in English deductively from Stand-up comedy.
This study is done to answer three problem statements: 1) Which utterances
make audience laugh? 2) What factors of each utterance causing laughter of
audience? 3) Why are those utterances funny?
The subject of this research is the stand-up comedy show of Trevor
Noah in Melbourne, consisting of the comic and the audiences. The object
of this research is the laughter-causing utterances he said in the show and
the audiences’ response which transcribed from video downloaded from
YouTube with the duration 7 minutes and 29 seconds. From the transcript
were taken the laughter-causing utterances and analyzed the data through
two steps: 1) describing the utterance and matching the factors of laughter
causing utterances as listed. 2) analyzing the utterances causing the
audiences’ laughter descriptively and qualitatively.
In this paper, the writer found 49 laughter causing utterances, and
13 factors out of 15 factors that caused the utterances funny. The writer
found that those utterances funny because the natural betrayal that happened
in every utterance