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Funny As : The Story of New Zealand Comedy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : Auckland University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781776710447
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Funny AsDDC classification:
  • 792.76
LOC classification:
  • PN1969.C65 .H673 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Michele A'Court -- Introduction -- 1. Bloody laughter: war and the birth of New Zealand comedy -- 2. Comedy and writers: blokes, bastards and outbreaks of beauty -- 3. Lessons in comedy: universities and capping revues -- 4. 'Bold and blue': female impersonators, cabaret and variety -- 5. Comedians and politicians: 'stuff that doesn't really matter -- 6. Comedy and theatre: million-dollar ideas -- 7. Directors on the edge: comedy on screen -- 8. The start of it: TV comedy up to the 1980s -- 9. John Clarke: the man from the audience -- 10. Billy T. James: between two worlds -- 11. The Topp Twins: only in New Zealand -- 12. The Front Lawn: sons of the suburbs -- 13. Live comedy in the 1980s and 1990s: looking for a place to stand (up) -- 14. Breaking the rules: TV in the 1990s and beyond -- 15. Naked in the house of spirits: Samoan comedy -- 16. Live comedy in the twenty-first century: the new establishment -- 17. Kin folk: Flight of the Conchords -- 18. Taika Waititi: a Māori in space -- 19. Rose and other names: a new comedy generation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Acknowledgements.
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Michele A'Court -- Introduction -- 1. Bloody laughter: war and the birth of New Zealand comedy -- 2. Comedy and writers: blokes, bastards and outbreaks of beauty -- 3. Lessons in comedy: universities and capping revues -- 4. 'Bold and blue': female impersonators, cabaret and variety -- 5. Comedians and politicians: 'stuff that doesn't really matter -- 6. Comedy and theatre: million-dollar ideas -- 7. Directors on the edge: comedy on screen -- 8. The start of it: TV comedy up to the 1980s -- 9. John Clarke: the man from the audience -- 10. Billy T. James: between two worlds -- 11. The Topp Twins: only in New Zealand -- 12. The Front Lawn: sons of the suburbs -- 13. Live comedy in the 1980s and 1990s: looking for a place to stand (up) -- 14. Breaking the rules: TV in the 1990s and beyond -- 15. Naked in the house of spirits: Samoan comedy -- 16. Live comedy in the twenty-first century: the new establishment -- 17. Kin folk: Flight of the Conchords -- 18. Taika Waititi: a Māori in space -- 19. Rose and other names: a new comedy generation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Acknowledgements.

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