Comedy Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1 (2023)

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Comedy Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1 (2023)

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Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
Ian Wilkie
Page: 1
Published online: 15 Mar 2023
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A Very Peculiar Practice: a very modern campus comedy, 35 years on
G. Neil Martin
Pages: 2-19
Published online: 06 Dec 2022
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Gender, ethnic and class as humour strategies in stand-up comedy of Bovi, Kenny Blaq, Akpororo and Basket Mouth
Ayo Osisanwo & Omolade Ilesanmi
Pages: 20-35
Published online: 27 Nov 2022
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The Dionysian clown in movies: the Homicidal Joker in the Dark Knight (2008), Batman the Killing Joke (2016) and Joker (2019)
Houda Belkhiri
Pages: 36-53
Published online: 22 Nov 2022
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Ought comedies be censored? Take Dave Chapelle and Ali Wong as case studies
Qianni Zhou
Pages: 54-63
Published online: 22 Nov 2022
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On an equal footing: the performance of up-and-coming and established comedians during social distancing
Marcell Machado Marchioro
Pages: 64-74
Published online: 25 Nov 2022
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‘Shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods’: Henri Bergson’s theory of comedy and the meaning of life
Cate Watson
Pages: 75-83
Published online: 22 Nov 2022
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The Joker movie: the representation of self based on hegemony theory
Mohammad Zaid
Pages: 84-93
Published online: 22 Nov 2022
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Red-nosed fantasies of the future: a framework for social justice-informed performance creation in the Mump and Smoot Lineage of the Pochinko tradition of clowning
Charlie Peters
Pages: 94-103
Published online: 22 Nov 2022
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Flipping off political complacency and cynicism: satyric satire as a comic corrective in Bill Maher’s 2014 #FlipADistrict campaign
Thomas A. Salek
Pages: 104-119
Published online: 24 Nov 2022
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The aesthetics of hāsya and raudra in Nāṭyaśāstra: anger as the flip side of the comic sentiment
Vishaka Venkat
Pages: 120-132
Published online: 30 Nov 2022
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Interview

‘My life fell apart. Are you happy now?’: an interview with Laura Lexx
Oliver Double
Pages: 133-140
Published online: 30 Nov 2022
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Book Review
Review of Huw Marsh, The comic turn in contemporary English fiction: who’s laughing now
Bloomsbury academic 2020, ISBN 978-1-4742-9303-7, 247pp
Glyn White
Pages: 141-143
Published online: 22 Nov 2022
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The global and local appeal of Kneehigh Theatre company
By Catherine Trenchfield, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Olly Crick
Pages: 142-143
Published online: 30 Nov 2022
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