TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medhurst,Andy
TI  - A national joke: popular comedy and English cultural identities 
SN  - 9780203022566
AV  - PN1995 .N385 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Comedy films
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Television comedies
KW  - English wit and humor
KW  - National characteristics, English
KW  - English
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Concerning comedy --; Notions of nation --; Englishnesses --; Music hall: Contours and legacies --; Our gracious queens: English comedy's effeminate tradition --; Lads in love: Gender and togetherness in the male double act --; Thirty nibbles at the same cherry: Why the 'Carry Ons' carry on --; Bermuda my arse: Class, culture and 'The Royle Family' --; Anatomising England: Alan Bennett, Mike Leigh, Victoria Wood --; Togetherness through offensiveness: The importance of Roy 'Chubby' Brown --; Conclusion: A national sense of humour?; 2; b
N2  - In 'A National Joke', Andy Medhurst investigates the Englishness of a century of English comedy. Using case studies of comic traditions and representations, the author shows how comedy plays a key role in the construction of cultural identity
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