Abstract This study explores the intricate dynamics of comedy reception and identity construction within a group of teenage girls. It examines how, by assessing internet
Abstract During the 1930s Korea and Vietnam were undergoing profound social changes at the crossroads of tradition and modernity and under the colonial rule of
Abstract Comic skits, like stand-up comedy, have been invaluable sources of humour, education and sensitisation in Nigeria. Extant studies have acknowledged the informative and entertaining
Abstract On the 1st June 2020 US president Donald Trump posed in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church holding up a Bible for a photo
Abstract The publication focuses on the portrayal of the arms race in Polish caricatures published in satirical magazines “Mucha”, “Karuzela”, and “Szpilki” during the Cold
Abstract This article investigates the cognitive foundations of Ukrainian war-related black humour memes through their conceptual modeling. Black humour is reinterpreted as a meme genre
Abstract This article examines the use of impartial humour in political cartoons on the Russian-Ukrainian war. The dataset includes 18 political cartoons from Australia, the
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Abstract In 1889, Jerome K. Jerome published Three Men in a Boat, a special kind of travelogue. As the gluttonous heroes make food their main
Abstract Although J.-K. Huysmans’s Decadent novel À rebours [Against Nature] is not known primarily as a comic novel, it has amused readers for different reasons
Abstract In our life, vulgar jokes are often considered to be uncultured and in bad taste. Is bad taste always worse than good taste? In
Abstract In the early 17th century, a unique genre of pornographic poetry, termed “satyrique” in French, gained prominence for roughly two decades. Presented in small
Abstract My paper analyses a broad range of sexually explicit comic material in order to explore changing cultural tastes. #MeToo, concerns about “toxic masculinity” and
Abstract GDR playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is famous for the dark, carnivalesque humour of his plays, mostly dealing with German historical traumas. To approach the
Abstract This article examines the trope of cannibalism in satire after Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal (1727), identifying its function as a form of satiric exaggeration
Abstract Renaud Séchan (known as just “Renaud”) has been a particularly popular French singer-songwriter since the seventies. This success relies in part on the persona
Abstract Scholars have shown that there is a longstanding connection between food and humour (Sover & Ben-Meir, 2017) as well as food and questions of
Abstract The early 21st-century French comic narratives have revealed a tendency to exaggerate differences between France and Islam. They display nostalgia for white, Christian, pork-eating
Abstract This study investigates the positioning of comedians in streamed stand-up comedy specials (SSCSs). In an analysis of ten 2023 Netflix SSCSs, this research explores
Abstract This article considers the importance of humour in the Crab Museum, Margate, UK. This unconventional cultural space describes itself as a small, independent science
