The Aristocrats!: Comedy, grotesqueries and political inversions of the masculine code
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Danielle Jeanine Deveau,
Abstract
In the film The Aristocrats (2005) comedy audiences are given a rare glimpse inside the entertainment industry green room. An analysis of the age-old joke “The Aristocrats”, the film offers insight into the role of humor in everyday life, the gendered nature of comedy, and the powerful ties that bind stand-up and variety comedy performers. This paper applies Bakhtinian theories of laughter and the carnivalesque to The Aristocrats. In particular, I consider the way in which female comics construct humor from within a masculinized and often misogynist field. I find that comedy is able to make evident divergent perspectives while paradoxically also serving to pull people together into a common discursive framework.
©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Satire and definition
- The Aristocrats!: Comedy, grotesqueries and political inversions of the masculine code
- Disclosure humor and distortion humor: A reversal theory analysis
- Humor support in synchronous computer-mediated classroom discussions
- Humor perception in bilinguals: Is language more than a code?
- Humor use in power-differentiated interactions
- Childhood experiences of professional comedians: Peer and parent relationships and humor use
- Book Reviews
