Editing Stand-up comedy (section)

== History ==
{{main|History of stand-up comedy}}
Stand-up comedy originated in various traditions of popular entertainment in the late 19th century. These include [[vaudeville]], the [[Stump speech (minstrelsy)|stump-speech monologues]] of minstrel shows, [[dime museum]]s, [[concert saloon]]s, [[freak show]]s, [[variety show]]s, [[medicine show]]s, [[American burlesque]], [[music hall|English music halls]], [[circus clown|circus clown antics]], [[Chautauqua]], and [[humorist]] monologues, such as those delivered by [[Mark Twain]] in his 1866 touring show ''Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tafoya |first1=Eddie |title=The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form |date=2009 |publisher=Universal-Publishers |isbn=9781599424958 |pages=85–148}}</ref><ref>Bloomquist, Jennifer. "The Minstrel Legacy: African American English and the Historical Construction of 'Black' Identities in Entertainment." ''Journal of African American Studies'' 19, no. 4 (2015): 410–425.</ref>

[[Charles Farrar Browne]] (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867), better known by his [[nom de plume]], Artemus Ward, is considered{{By whom|date=November 2024}} America's first stand-up comedian.{{Cn|date=November 2024}}

The first documented use of "stand-up" appeared in ''[[The Stage]]'' in 1911, describing Nellie Perrier delivering 'stand-up comic ditties in a [[chic]] and charming manner'. However, this referred to a performance of [[comedy songs]] rather than stand-up comedy in its modern form.<ref>''Comedy Studies'', vol. 8, no. 1, 106–109{{full citation needed|date=November 2023}}</ref>

The term appeared again in the “Stage Gossip” column of ''[[Yorkshire Evening Post|The Yorkshire Evening Post]]'' on November 10, 1917. The article discussed the career of a comedian Finlay Dunn, stating that Dunn was "what he calls a stand-up comedian'" during the latter part of the 19th century. However, the term may have been used retrospectively.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Double|first=Oliver|date=9 April 2018|title=The origin of the term 'stand-up comedy'|journal=Comedy Studies|volume=12|issue=2|pages=235–237|doi=10.1080/2040610X.2018.1428427|s2cid=195058528|url=https://kar.kent.ac.uk/66675/2/The%20origin%20of%20the%20term%20stand-up%20comedy%20update.docx |via=Taylor & Francis}}</ref>