Schematic of humorous discourse of stand-up comedy in Indonesia

Abstract

This qualitative research design was conducted to describe the schema, cohesion, coherence, and context contained in the stand-up comedy performed by famous comics (performer of stand-up comedy) in Indonesia. The data were in the form of the text of stand-up comedy performed by Raditya Dika. Ernest Prakarsa, dan Pandji Pragiwaksono. The source of the data was video-audio stand up comedy on YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com. Next, the data gathered and analyzed grounded in the theory of schematic, cohesion, coherence and humorous discourse. The results show that that the schemata appear in the set-up section and each schema appears based on the experience of comics. The schema appears variously including dating, children, family, education, personal experience, social and so forth. The cohesion found in the stand-up comedy performed by the comics is only a few and without coherence in it. The context arising also depends on the main theme of the stand-up comedy.