Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics:
- Funniness, prettiness, and feminism
- Kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list
- Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina fey
- Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs"
- Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto
- "White people are looking at you!" Wanda Sykes's black looks
- Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door.