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Because I Tell A Joke Or Two Book

Because I Tell A Joke Or Two
Because I Tell A Joke Or Two, <em>Because I Tell a Joke or Two</em> explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood. It shows how comedy has been used to sustain, challenge and to change pow, Because I Tell A Joke Or Two has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Because I Tell A Joke Or Two
  • Written by author Stephen Wagg
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, Inc., March 1998
  • Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood. It shows how comedy has been used to sustain, challenge and to change pow
  • Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood. It shows how comedy has been used to sustain, challenge and to change pow
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Introduction
1'At Ease, Corporal': Social class and the situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to the 1990s1
2The Lancashire Shaman: Frank Randle and Mancunian Films32
3Butterflies and Caustic Asides: Housewives, comedy and the feminist movement50
4Tarts, Tampons and Tyrants: Women and representation in British comedy65
5Certain Liberties Have Been Taken with Cleopatra: Female performance in the Carry On films94
6Punching Your Weight: Conversations with Jo Brand111
7The Straight Men of Comedy137
8Suits and Sequins: Lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the 1990s146
9'Yeah, and I Used to be a Hunchback': Immigrants, humour and the Marx Brothers165
10'Where Everybody Knows Your Name': Open convictions and closed contexts in the American situation comedy180
11Cringe and Strut: Comedy and national identity in post-war Australia202
12'Serious T'ing': The black comedy circuit in England221
13'They Already Got a Comedian for Governor': Comedians and politics in the United States and Great Britain244
14VIZ: Gender, class and taboo273
15Heard the One About the White Middle-Class Heterosexual Father-in-Law?: Gender, ethnicity and political correctness in comedy291
Index313


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