Comedy Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1 (2024)

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Comedy Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1 (2024)

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Research Articles

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Playing nice in the face of bigotry: Bassem Youssef and Islamophobia in the United States
Matthew McMahan
Pages: 1-15
Published online: 19 Jan 2024
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Persian comedy whispers out loud: a critical discourse analysis of Persian televised stand-up comedy
Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza
Pages: 16-35
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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That funny feeling: the tragic stylings of Bo Burnham’s Inside
Julia Moriarty
Pages: 36-47
Published online: 14 Nov 2023
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Political satire as alternative journalism in Indian stand-up comedy
Ancy Anna Anto & Neerja Vyas
Pages: 48-60
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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Pushing the boundaries: an evaluation of the use of profanity and its relevance in Indian stand-up comedy
Soumyadipta Banerjee & Avneesh Kumar
Pages: 61-76
Published online: 26 Mar 2024
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Joking, prophetically: the use of humour in Mormon leaders’ sermons
Adrian Hale
Pages: 77-93
Published online: 28 Sep 2023
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Open Access
Article
‘It isn’t desolate because you are here’: Lorraine Hansberry’s comedy in Raisin in the Sun and ‘The Arrival of Mr. Todog’
Dave Peterson
Pages: 94-106
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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Laughing out loud in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: a postmodernist reading
Mourad Romdhani & Olfa Gandouz
Pages: 107-121
Published online: 14 Apr 2024
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Interview

Interview
The philosophy of clowning: a “clownversation” with Jon Davison on 28/04/2022
Houda Belkhiri
Pages: 122-129
Published online: 13 Jul 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms, Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities
By Ellie Tomsett. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, 261 pp., £76.50, ISBN 9781350302280
Emma Sullivan
Pages: 130-132
Published online: 06 May 2024
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UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity
Edited by Mary Irwin and Jill Marshall. Cham: Palgrave, 2023, 250 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-23628-0
Sarah Ilott
Pages: 133-136
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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