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In our pursuit of a world that is safely and entirely OK, must humour be cleansed of its original sin of cultural appropriation and insensitivity? It depends whether we are ‘laughing up’ or ‘laughing down’.
American comedian Larry David has drawn fire for his jokes about the Holocaust. But he draws on a long tradition of Jewish humour.
There’s a reason why horror films are becoming more and more absurd.
Rape jokes are among the most controversial that comedians can tell, but a Concordia professor says laughing at the absurdity of a world that silences survivors is also an act of support and solidarity.
Charlie Chaplin was a comedy great but it’s Stan Laurel who still gets ‘em rolling in the aisles.
From Obama to street protests, humour is being used to make some very serious points.
Have you heard the one about the Victorian sense of humour?
Nakkiah Lui’s Black is the New White takes 17th-century comedy of manners and uses it to probe race and class to great effect.
As series two comes to a close, here are the ingredients behind a piece of 24-carat comedy gold.
Aboriginal stand-up comedy is thriving and no topic, it seems, is off limits. As the Melbourne International Comedy Festival opens, here’s the lowdown on Indigenous humour.
British comedy has always revelled in self-reflexive parody. Now, following Brexit, perhaps the re-nationalisation of British comedy is nigh.
Enough with the charming, naughty funny-guy rants. There are too many in a new anthology of Australian comedy writing – and women display a superior comic imagination.
One viral video might leave you in stitches; another leaves you cold. Psychology researchers have worked out several theories of humor to explain why.
British society takes monarchy far more seriously than they did two centuries ago. Far too seriously.
His extraordinary talent was most evident as his ‘straight guys’ became increasingly deranged.
From Alfonso the Wise’s bawdy songs of slander to Ronald Reagan’s sunny smile, politics and humor have gone hand-in-hand for centuries. But no one seems to be laughing anymore.
Stand-up comedians die two to three years younger than comedic and dramatic actors. And the funnier they are judged to be, the greater their risk of dying.
For the comic protagonist, the literary critic Northrop Frye once observed, life is something you get through. While tragic characters die in plangent splendour, and Marvel superheroes vanquish tech-spangled…
When comedian Larry Wilmore called President Obama ‘my n-gga’ during the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner, what was he really saying?
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Performance, University of Salford
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in Journalism, Swansea University
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PhD Candidate, University of Leeds
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Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Bangor University
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Associate Professor in the Media School, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Fort Lewis College
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Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex
