Many thousands of Germans got through internment by performing farces, dressing up as women and clapping along to the can-can.
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Racist ‘jokes’ embed negative stereotypes. Here’s why it’s not humourless to refuse to join in.
The decision to cancel the series – and remove it from air in Australia – demonstrates there is a clear line that even money can’t cross.
How funny women are turning to ‘femoir’ to promote female empowerment.
Comedy performers suffer more health problems, a new study has found.
When it debuted in 1988, Roseanne was a breath of fresh air against the conservative middle class family sitcoms then on air. Its reboot in 2018 feels just as relevant.
Netflix hit, Black Mirror, follows in the footsteps of other forward-thinking sci-fi storytellers.
What does it mean for free speech if a comedian is successfully sued by her ex-husband over the material in her act?
A philosopher’s take on what makes jokes funny.
Humour doesn’t often age well. But some comedy can adapt to changing social mores.
In the elementary classroom, improv can nurture a collaborative and creative climate in which even reticent kids want to participate.
Charlie Chaplin changed the worlds of film and comedy forever. He deserves a lasting tribute and London’s Cinema Museum – the UK’s only Chaplin museum – must be rescued.
It can be a tough gig as a female comedian.
In our pursuit of a world that is safely and entirely OK, must humour be cleansed of its original sin of cultural appropriation and insensitivity? It depends whether we are ‘laughing up’ or ‘laughing down’.
American comedian Larry David has drawn fire for his jokes about the Holocaust. But he draws on a long tradition of Jewish humour.
There’s a reason why horror films are becoming more and more absurd.
Rape jokes are among the most controversial that comedians can tell, but a Concordia professor says laughing at the absurdity of a world that silences survivors is also an act of support and solidarity.
Charlie Chaplin was a comedy great but it’s Stan Laurel who still gets ‘em rolling in the aisles.
From Obama to street protests, humour is being used to make some very serious points.
Have you heard the one about the Victorian sense of humour?
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Professor of Film and Media Studies, Colorado State University
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Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature, Penn State
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Performance, University of Salford
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Flinders University
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Professor of Communication and International Studies, Boston College
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Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Fort Lewis College
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Sessional lecturer and researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in the Media School, Indiana University
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD Candidate, University of Leeds; Independent Social Research Foundation