Krefting, Rebecca, 1978- author.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
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Notes:

• Includes filmographies and discographies.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.
• Introduction: American humor and its discontents — Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor — Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor — Laughing into the new millennium — When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption — Robin Tyler: still ‘working the crowd’ — Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes — Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy — Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.

Subjects:

• Stand-up comedy — United States.
• Comedy — History and criticism.
• Participatory theater.
• Comedy. fast (OCoLC)fst00869083
• Participatory theater. fast (OCoLC)fst01054039
• Stand-up comedy. fast (OCoLC)fst01131440
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635

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