Comedy and Critique: Stand-Up Comedy and the Professional Ethos of Laughter

by Daniel R. Smith

Comedy and Critique explores British professional stand-up comedy in the wake of the Alternative Comedy movement of the late twentieth century, seeing it as an extension of the politics of the New Left: standing up for oneself as anti-racist, feminist and open to a queering of self and social institutions.

Daniel Smith demonstrates that the comic sensibility pervading contemporary humour is as much 'speaking truth to power' as it is realising...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529200156
• ISBN13: 9781529200157
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"