When Comedy Goes Wrong

af Christopher J. (Assumption University) Gilbert

It's time to look at what is not so funny about funny business. While conventional wisdom has it that humor embodies a spirit of renewal and humility, a new, dispirited form of comedy has begun to thrive in today's media-saturated and politically charged environment. When Comedy Goes Wrong examines how, from the late-twentieth to the early twenty-first century, a certain comic dispirit has found various platforms for disheartening cultural politics. From the calculated follies on talk radio prog... (Læs mere)