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As one of the art forms for public entertainment, female stand-up comedies stand out by their prevailing taste for domestic humor or lively wit at the working place, many female stand-up comedians register their discontent with their surroundings in one way or another. Humor undeniably is an otherwise strategy for coping with life’s difficulties. It plays a pivotal role in presenting criticism in a light-hearted way. Why do some of the successful American stand-up comedians simply elicit great laughter among the audience and what urgent issues are they tapping upon and how? This paper, through a combination of close reading and distant reading (computer stylistics) of the scripts performed from a pool of female stand-up comedians primarily from the USA, aims to uncover the common linguistic traits in this corpus against 19th-century British female novelists’ works, as well as examine the rhetorical style shared within the female stand-ups while they are criticizing the established order in society. The conclusion is, despite humor inducing mockery, the weight of feminine strength and appeal for justice by this weapon still has the potential to be reduced by itself. Yet the female angelic ideal is effectively killed within their iconoclastic laughing which should be celebrated.
