Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak

1. Introduction: Mocking the Weak? Contexts, Theories, Politcs, Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott. 2. Taking Liberties? Free Speech, Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Satire, Anshuman A. Mondal. 3. Openness, Otherness, and Expertise: Uncertainty and Trust in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle , Rob Hawkes. 4. British Multiculturalism, Romantic Comedy, and the Lie of Social Unification, Sarah Ilott. 5. Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle's Show and Key & Peele, Janine Bradbury. 6. Blackness and Banal Whiteness: Abjection and Identity in the Italian Christmas Comedy, Alan O'Leary. 7. Sexual and National Difference in the high-speed, popular surrealism of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau's double acts, 1929-1936, Neil Washbourne. 8. From Terry and June to Terry and Julian : June Whitfield and the British Suburban Sitcom, Rosie White. 9. Saintly Cretins and Ugly Buglys: Laughing at Victorian Disability in Hunderby, Helen Davies. 10. Standing Up to False Binaries in Humour and Autism: A Dialogue, Kate Fox. 11. Comedy and the Representation of the British Working Class from On the Buses to This is England '90, Tracy Casling. 12. Theorising Post-Socialist Sitcom: Imported Form, Vernacular Humour and Taste Boundaries on the Global Periphery, Dejan Jontes and Andreja Trdina. 13. Smile, Hitler? Nazism and Comedy in Popular Culture, Jason Lee. 14. POTUS Stand-up: The White House Correspondents' Dinner, Sheryl Tuttle Ross.