Chapter three. Sarah Silverman: Bedwetting, Body Comedy, and “a Mouth Full of Blood Laughs”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Pretty/Funny Women and Comedy’s Body Politics: Funniness, Prettiness, and Feminism 1
5. Chapter One. Kathy Griffin and the Comedy of the D List 30
6. Chapter two. Feminism, Postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: Picturing Tina Fey 59
7. Chapter three. Sarah Silverman: Bedwetting, Body Comedy, and “a Mouth Full of Blood Laughs” 92
8. Chapter four. Margaret Cho Is Beautiful: A Comedy of Manifesto 123
9. Chapter five. “White People Are Looking at You!” Wanda Sykes’s Black Looks 155
10. Chapter six. Ellen DeGeneres: Pretty Funny Butch as Girl Next Door 190
11. Notes 221
12. Bibliography 235
13. Index 251