But Is It Funny?
Comedy Studies special : guest panelists consider some of the biggest questions in comedy
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Hosted by Suchandrika Chakrabarti
Featuring:
Sharon Lockyer
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/sharon-lockyer
Sophie Quirk
https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/536/quirk-sophie
Anja Karlsson
https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/anjafranckkarlsson
LINKS
What can comedy achieve in the context of repression and violence? Can the meme save us?
What’s so funny in Afghanistan?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629817304109
Smiling while being arrested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCIasDCtm7A&ab_channel=AJ%2B
Myanmar coup: Pools and princesses as protesters go all out
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56006324
Laughing through lockdown
Sometimes a Milkshake Is Just a Milkshake
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/milkshake-thrown-nigel-farage-nothing-new/590317/
Laughing at power: Humor, transgression, and the politics of refusal in Palestine
https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envirc/v38y2020i3p387-404.html
Joking: uses and abuses of humour in the Election campaign
Women, comedy and power
https://getofflivecomedy.co.uk/
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rosie-jones-question-time-trolling-ableist-abuse-bbc-b959464.html
https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/live-comedy/comedy-isnt-accessible-enough/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2015.1106402
Comedy in academia
Palgrave Studies in Comedy
https://www.springer.com/series/14644
Centre for Comedy Studies Research
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Networks-and-Labs/Comedy-Studies-Research
PLUS
https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/deborah-frances-white-685021