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Acknowledgments Ian Wilkie: an introductory foreword chapter by the editor of Comedy Studies Journal 1. Chris Ritchie Against comedy (1:2) 2. Peter Marteinson Thoughts on the current state of humor theory (1:2) 3. Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton The origins of comic performance in adult-child interaction (1:1) 4. Caspar Addyman and Ishbel Addyman The science of baby laughter (4:2) 5. Rachel Kirk The time travelling miser (2:1) 6. Louise Peacock Conflict and slapstick in commedia dell' arte (4:1) 7. Richard Talbot and Barnaby King Clowns do ethnography (5:1) 8. Isaac Hui Hamlet, comedy and class struggle (4:2) 9. David Huxley and David James Race, class and gender in British music hall (3:1) 10. Gilli Bush-Bailey Women like us? (3:2) 11. Hannah Ballou Pretty Funny (4:2) 12. Tim Miles No greater foe? (audience and stand ups) (5:1) 13. Lloyd Peters The roots of alternative comedy? (4: 1) 14. Christopher Molineux Life memory archive (documentation in stand up) (7:1) 15. Oliver Double interview with Ross Noble (1:1) 16. Tony Moon interview with Stewart Lee (2:1) 17. Tony Moon interview with Barry Cryer (2:2) 18. Gary Turk interview with Charlie Hanson (3:1) 19. Tony Moon interview with Tiffany Stevenson (3:2) 20. Sam Friedman interview with Russell Kane (4: 2) 21. Sam Friedman interview with Les Dennis (4:2) 22. Kara Hunt on Chris Rock (5:2) 23. Tony Moon interview with John Lloyd (8:1) 24. Ian Wilkie interview with Kate Fox (8:2) 25. Sharon Lockyer From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas (2:2 ) 26. Louise Peacock Joan Rivers - reading the meaning (2:2) 27. Brett Mills Humour theory and Joan Rivers (2:2) 28. Debra Aarons and Marc Mierowsky Obscenity, dirtiness and licence in Jewish comedy (5:2) 29. Grant Julin Satire in a Multicultural World: A Bakhtinian Analysis (9:2) 30. Mark Harmon, Barbara Kaye, Amanda Martin -When Silly Meets Serious (9:2) 31. Ian Reilly The comedian the cat and the activist (6:1) 32. Cate Blouke Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen and seriousness of mock documentary (6:1) 33. Kyle Meikle A book and a movie walk into a bar (6:2) 34. Peter Kunze Kidding around: children, comedy and social media (5:1) 35. Rebecca Krefting and Rebecca Baruc Social media and comedy (6:2) 36. Jillian Belanger Comedy meets media 6 2 37. Lucien Leon The animated moving image as political cartoon (9:1) 38. Matthew Mckeague Is vlogging the new stand up? (9:1) Index
Summary
The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010.
