Humour as resistance: Disaster humour in post-9/11 United States

This paper studies the evolution of political humour in media in the United States after 9/11. Previous research has identified patterns in the evolution of jokes on the Internet but a study of patterns of humour in mainstream media remain scarce. This paper looks at late night television shows and...

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Main Author: Aju Basil James
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2015-04-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/62