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All Joking Aside: American Humor And Its Discontents Project Muse Upcc Books by Rebecca (assistant Professor, Skidmore College) Krefting is a humor available to read on EtoBox.

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A professor of American Studies—and stand-up comic—examines sharply focused comedy and its cultural utility in contemporary society. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs—they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our society is and the behaviors and practices we enact to maintain those fictions. Jokes loaded with vitriol and delivered with verve, charged humor compels audiences to action, artfully summoning political critique. Since the institutionalization of stand-up comedy as a distinct cultural form, stand-up comics have leveraged charged humor to reveal social, political, and economic stratifications. All Joking Aside offers a history of charged comedy from the mid-twentieth century to the early aughts, highlighting dozens of talented comics from Dick Gregory and Robin Tyler to Micia Mosely and Hari Kondabolu. The popularity of charged humor has waxed and waned over the past sixty years. Indeed, the history of charged humor is a tale of intrigue

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Author

Rebecca (assistant Professor, Skidmore College) Krefting

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421414317

Category

humor

Subjects

History, Performing Arts, Sports

Rating

3.2 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14