This research was conducted by the fenomenon of stand up comedy in intertaiment of Indonesia that have good response from audiens. Stand up comedy is one of humor which uses speaking ability in performing. Usually a Comika, Someone who performs a stand up comedy, speaks about sosial fenomenon which happened around the sociaty.
Therefore, this research want to look at how audiens response to stand up comedy performing. I have choosen materials of stand up comedy which performing in Kompas TV. There are three materials using in this research, which performed by Abdur, Boah and Rachmet. This type of research uses the qualitative approach to the analysis of reception. The way of collecting data in this research uses deep interview which 3 informances have choosen.
The finding of this research indicated that there are 3 risulting of audiens response to the stand up comedies performing. The first, audiens shown accepted, this happen when a comika told about something which audiens have known. But in some cases, it shown that audiens accepted it without background of khonwledge about what the comika performing. The second, the audiens shown negotiation. This happen when a comika said about something which needs more explanation.
The last, audiens shown oposition to the material of stand up comedy. This happened when a comika performed a material which contrast with audiens khowledge. This research also shown that in some cases, although audiens have known that stand up comedy is one of the humor which can contain fact, opinion, or just stories. But the audiens accepted what a comika have told as a fact, something that really happened