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For decades, stand-up comedy has been central to the imbrication of popular culture and political discourse, reshaping t

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Working to Laugh : Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues
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Already a well-regarded producer of television specials and variety shows by 1967, George Schlatter pitched to NBC an id

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Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are k

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This manuscript compares the status of women in capitalist Austria and (post-) socialist Hungary in the period from the

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Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic com

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What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever

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The Laugh-Makers is an intensive sociological field study of the drive to become a successful stand-up comic in Canada.

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'I always say a day is wasted without laughter . . .' Alison Hammond loves to laugh. And the nation laughs wi

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Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's

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'Laugh with Health' is the complete 'body system' guide to health and healing. Now completely revise

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Recognizable, recurring spatial settings in video games serve not only as points of reference and signposts for orientat

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