Humor Sebagai Pengalaman Estetis Penerapannya dalam Studi Kasus Stand-Up Comedy Indonesia (SUCI)

Humor, as a praxis, is already practiced in Indonesian society, by and large. Nevertheless, it is rarely discussed amongst academician or analyzed in serious academic fashion or published in credible academic journals in Indonesia. This paper is an initial attempt to bridge such gap, first of all by reintroducing three big theories of humor already discussed and debated in western academic (philosophy, linguistic, psychology) circles. Secondly, by highlighting and analyzing the term aesthetic experience. Afterward, by combining theories of humor with theory ofaesthetic experience, it will be shown two things:(1) how humor could be perceived as aesthetic experience, and (2) how humor can be classified as aesthetic and non-aesthetic humor. Thus combined, it becomes an analytical tool for dissecting a case study of recent phenomenon of stand-up comedy in Indonesia. With careful observation, I will argue that in some cases of stand-up comedy (such as stand-up comedy programs aired by Kompas TVand Metro TV), aesthetic experience is no longer experienced as a” l’art pour l’art,” but rather, a mixture ofaesthetic with utilitarianfunction andfinancial motif