TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krefting,Rebecca
TI  - All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents
SN  - 9781421414317
AV  - PN1969.C65 .K744 2014 
U1  - 792.7/60973 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Stand-up comedy-United States
KW  - Comedy-History and criticism
KW  - Participatory theater
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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