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008  980407s1998    nyu      b    001 0 eng  
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020      $a0415129206 (hbk.)
020      $a0415129214 (pbk.)
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050  00  $aPN1992.8.C66$bB43 1998
050   4  $aPN1922$bB43 1998
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245  00  $aBecause I tell a joke or two :$bcomedy, politics,
         and social difference /$cedited by Stephen Wagg.
260      $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c1998.
300      $axiv, 322 p. ;$c24 cm.
504      $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505  0   $a'At ease, corporal' : social class and the
         situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to
         the 1990s / Stephen Wagg -- The Lancashire shaman : Frank
         Randle and Mancunian films / C.P. Lee -- Butterflies and
         caustic asides : housewives, comedy and the feminist
         movement / Maggie Andrews -- Tarts, tampons and tyrants :
         women and representation in British comedy / Laraine Porter
         -- Certain liberties have taken with Cleopatra : female
         performance in the Carry on films / Frances Gray -- Punching
         your weight : conversations with Jo Brand / Stephen Wagg --
         The straight men of comedy / Mark Simpson -- Suits and
         sequins : lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the
         1990s / Frances Williams -- 'Yeah, and I used to be a
         hunchback' : immigrants, humour and the Marx brothers / C.P.
         Lee -- 'Where everybody knows your name' : open convictions
         and closed contexts in the American situation comedy / Paul
         Wells -- Cringe and strut : comedy and national identity in
         post-war Australia / John McCallum -- 'Serious t'ing' : the
         black comedy circuit in England / Stephen Small -- 'They
         already got a comedian for governor' : comedians and
         politics in the United States and Great Britain / Stephen
         Wagg -- VIZ : gender, class and taboo / Dave Huxley -- Heard
         the one about the white middle-class heterosexual
         father-in-law? : gender, ethnicity and political correctness
         in comedy / Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering.
650   0  $aComedy$xHistory and criticism.
650   0  $aComic, The.
650   0  $aTelevision comedies$xHistory and criticism.
650   0  $aComedy films$xHistory and criticism.
650   0  $aComedy$xPolitical aspects.
700  1   $aWagg, Stephen.
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