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  Born in Error

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  Simon Tarr University of South Carolina

  February 05, 2013

  see if I could Gertrude Stein the word into or out of meaningful existence. Let us begin with a few ... terms, in the unfortunate case that you stumbled upon this piece at the beginning of your discoveries ...
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  “Just Leave Me to Do My Dark Bidding on the Internet”: How the Undead Live at Home in What We Do in the Shadows

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  Ella Tucan Georgia State University

  June 01, 2015

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  Zealand’s Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement make me smile from beginning to end? Chronicling the day-to-day ...
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  Conan O'Brien's Advertisers Need A Friend

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  Andrew Coolidge The University of Texas at Austin

  August 02, 2019

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  This serves to frame the rest to the commercial as something to be mistrusted or, at the very least ...
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  On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So?

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  July 24, 2007

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  least that is what television critics expected from the Half-Hour News Hour, a Daily Show rip-off which ...
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  All Eyes on the Weirdo: Depicting Beloved Outcasts on 90s Sitcoms

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  Chelsea Palmer Uniserve Communications Corporation

  September 08, 2015

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  least one weird character on a television show whose actions or internal logic are incomprehensible to ...
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  That’s Not Funny!: Cultural Capital and Comedic Critique

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  Stephanie Brown Washington College

  June 06, 2016

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  That’s Not Funny!: Cultural Capital and Comedic Critique stand-up comedy humor gender feminism cultural critique craft of comedy carnivalesque Curator's Note It’s often said that the best way to kill comedy is to analyze it and that feminists can’t t ...