All Joking Aside : American Humor and Its Discontents.
Krefting, Rebecca.
All Joking Aside : American Humor and Its Discontents. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (360 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Laughscape of American Humor -- 1 Making Connections: Building Cultural Citizenship through Charged Humor -- 2 Twentieth-Century Stand-Up: A History of Charged Humor -- 3 Laughing into the New Millennium -- 4 When Women Perform Charged Humor: The (Gendered) Politics of Consumption -- 5 Robin Tyler: Still "Working the Crowd" -- 6 Micia Mosely: Humor out of the Mouths of Babes -- 7 Hari Kondabolu: Performing in the Age of Modern-Day Minstrelsy -- Conclusion. How to Avoid the Last Laugh -- Notes -- Charged Comic Compendium -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Readers will be delighted by the broad array of comic talent spotlighted in this book, and for those interested in comedy with substance, it will offer an alternative punchline.
9781421414317
Stand-up comedy-United States.
Comedy-History and criticism.
Participatory theater.
Electronic books.
PN1969.C65 .K744 2014
792.7/60973
All Joking Aside : American Humor and Its Discontents. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (360 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Laughscape of American Humor -- 1 Making Connections: Building Cultural Citizenship through Charged Humor -- 2 Twentieth-Century Stand-Up: A History of Charged Humor -- 3 Laughing into the New Millennium -- 4 When Women Perform Charged Humor: The (Gendered) Politics of Consumption -- 5 Robin Tyler: Still "Working the Crowd" -- 6 Micia Mosely: Humor out of the Mouths of Babes -- 7 Hari Kondabolu: Performing in the Age of Modern-Day Minstrelsy -- Conclusion. How to Avoid the Last Laugh -- Notes -- Charged Comic Compendium -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Readers will be delighted by the broad array of comic talent spotlighted in this book, and for those interested in comedy with substance, it will offer an alternative punchline.
9781421414317
Stand-up comedy-United States.
Comedy-History and criticism.
Participatory theater.
Electronic books.
PN1969.C65 .K744 2014
792.7/60973