Comedic Nightmare : : The Trump Effect on American Comedy.

• Superior document: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
• VerfasserIn: Danesi, Marcel,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (121 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Abstract
• Keywords
• 1 American Comedy
• 1.1 Prologue
• 1.2 Vaudevillian Comedy
• 1.3 Sitcom Comedy
• 1.4 Stand-Up Comedy
• 1.5 The Protestant Ethic
• 1.6 Meme Humor
• 1.7 The Trump Effect
• 1.8 Epilogue
• 2 Buffoonery
• 2.1 Prologue
• 2.2 The Buffoon Character
• 2.3 Archie Bunker Redux
• 2.4 A Commedia Figure
• 2.5 Ridicule
• 2.6 Impersonation
• 2.7 Epilogue
• 3 Dark Comedy
• 3.1 Prologue
• 3.2 Dark Humor
• 3.3 Lenny Bruce
• 3.4 Bill Maher
• 3.5 Gallows Humor
• 3.6 Epilogue
• 4 The Circus Came and Went
• 4.1 Prologue
• 4.2 The Circus Clown
• 4.3 P. T. Barnum Redux
• 4.4 A Carnivalesque Performer
• 4.5 Epilogue
• 5 A Comedic Nightmare
• 5.1 Prologue
• 5.2 The Comedy Wars
• 5.3 Post-Trump Comedy
• 5.4 The Rise of Conservative Comedy
• 5.5 Fragmenting American Comedy
• 5.6 Tribalized Humor
• 5.7 Epilogue
• References
• Index.