The European Journal of Humour Research

Vol 10, No 1 (2022)

Book review: Double, Oliver (2020). Alternative Comedy. 1979 and The Reinvention of British Stand-Up. London and New York: Bloomsbury.

Margherita Dore

Abstract

Book review



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