Stand-Up Comedy in The Light of The Prophetic Hadith: Guidance or Prohibition

Abstract

This paper is entitled "Stand Up Comedy in Review of Prophetic Hadiths: Guidance or Prohibition. This research was conducted in line with the rise of Stand up Comedy activities, both through television and online media. This sparked curiosity whether this phenomenon was condoned by religion or prohibited. This research is qualitative research, phenomena that occur in society are studied using data from relevant books. The data sources of this research are books, as well as hadith related to comedy. Data collection is done directly, the data is then analyzed to obtain information that is relevant to the discussion. From the research conducted, it was found that comedy or stand up comedy activities have spread for a long time in the world and also in Indonesia with various terms. Comedy with the aim of delighting others does not contradict the prophet's hadith, as long as it is done reasonably and not excessively.