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Cringe Overhang: The Perlocutionary Effects of Cringe Comedy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Cringe comedy can make people so uncomfortable, the cringe continues even after the comedy has stopped. This paper explains this effect, which I call “cringe overhang”. If audiences weakly connect to the characters, they laugh.
Alexander Sparrow
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Grotesque realism in "Revizor" by N.V. Gogol

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016
The article is dedicated to the famous comedy «Revizor» by the great Russian writer N.V. Gogol. In the comedy the writer creates a carnival atmosphere in which people feel more freedom and more relaxed.
Zolotarev Igor Leonardovich
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Kritik Sosial Stand Up Comedy Indonesia Dalam Tinjauan Prakmatik

open access: yesPena : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra, 2018
Abstrak Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mendeskripsikan wujud kritik sosial yang terdapat dalam stand up comedy studi kasus comic Abdurrahum Arsyad dan mendeskripsikan penyimpangan prinsip kerja sama yang terdapat dalam stand up comedy studi kasus comic ...
Apri Damai Sagita Krissandi   +1 more
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Brain hemodynamic activity during viewing and re-viewing of comedy movies explained by experienced humor

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2016
Humor is crucial in human social interactions. To study the underlying neural processes, three comedy clips were shown twice to 20 volunteers during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
I. Jääskeläinen   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Approach to the Quotations of Hellenistic Comedy in Athenaeus

open access: yesAitia
Athenaeus of Naucratis is, due to the number of quotations offered in The Deipnosophistai, the main source of what we know of Hellenistic Comedy.
Jordi Pérez Asensio
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MODERN COMEDY SHOWS ON THE UKRAINIAN STAGE: THE CONCEPT OF IDEA AND OPERATIVE SIGNS

open access: yesВісник КНУКіМ: Серія Мистецтвознавство, 2018
The purpose of the article is to highlight the conceptual requirements for the creative idea of the director of modern comedy show programs; to characterize the operative features of comedy acts; to justify the principles of the genre layout of these ...
Nataliia Donchenko
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Life’s Too Short to be polite: Exploiting impoliteness and rudeness in Gervais And Merchant’s humour about physical difference

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2019
What follows is a qualitative analysis of the use of impoliteness for comic effect in the British comedy series Life’s Too Short written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Because each episode centres on Warwick Davis, an actor with restricted growth,
Dermot Heaney
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Political In Between: Streaming Stand-Up Comedy and Feminist Reckoning in Contemporary Mainland China

open access: yesGlobal Storytelling
China’s strict censorship not only depoliticizes stand-up comedy but creates obstacles for feminist activities. With an experimental approach that compares comedy shows online and offline, this paper asks in which ways comedy and feminism can gesture the
Shaoyu Tang
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La comedia urbana de corte celestinesco: Corpus, cronología, contextualización ritual, estructura y motivos recurrentes

open access: yesCriticón, 2016
This paper scrutinises a group of plays crucial to a better understanding of the itinerary that leads to our classical theatre: that of the urban comedy of Celestinesque type, also known by the critics as naharresca comedy or Romantic comedy.
Laura Puerto Moro
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Book review. Lindvall, Terry et al. (2016). Divine Film Comedies: Biblical Narratives, Film Sub-Genres, and the Comic Spirit. New York: Routledge.

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2019
This review critiques Terry Lindvall et al.'s Divine Film Comedies: Biblical Narratives, Film Sub-Genres, and the Comic Spirit. Lindvall et al.'s account is a study of a synthesis of the impact of film comedies with religious themes. By carrying out this
Tereza Walsbergerová
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