Humour and the Unacceptable in Neil Hamburger’s Routine
This paper addresses the comic routine of Australian born U.S. comedian Gregg Turkington’s alter-ego, ‘Neil Hamburger’, from the perspective of Aristotle’s ancient conception of the risible as a species of the unacceptable, or the unseemly. In doing so, it explores two thresholds of acceptability, s...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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UTS ePRESS
2014-08-01
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Series: | PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies |
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Online Access: | https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/3207 |