“Funnier Than Moms Mabley”
2025; University of California Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/fmh.2025.11.1.172
ISSN2373-7492
Autores Tópico(s)Eurasian Exchange Networks
ResumoThis article examines the stand-up comedy albums of comedian and blues singer Hattie Noel released in the 1960s. Her career reveals previously unrecognized connections between the classic blues of the 1920s–1930s and the stand-up comedy albums of the 1960s and presents a Black feminist perspective on sexuality and the politics of the civil rights era. Noel’s comedy transcends the stereotypes she played in Hollywood films and the dehumanization she faced in her work with Disney. Using the sonic archive of her LPs to understand the history of stand-up comedy offers an alternate narrative about her career. In Hollywood, her legacy was as a “hippo in a tutu,” but on stage and on vinyl, she negotiated a space for her voice.
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