Wicked: Women's Wit and Humour from Elizabeth I to Ruby Wax / by Morgan, Fidelis, editor 347854, Townsend, Sue, editor 204422

“…A percentage of royalties on every copy sold goes to Comic Relief.…”

Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter in German: What’s Missing in Translation? by Renée von Paschen

“…The unknown threat is counterbalanced by “black comic relief”. The lack of a classical German tradition of black comedy problematizes the translation of Pinter’s dialogue, while the limits of audiovisual translation add additional hurdles. …”
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Animals in Human Situations in Ancient Egyptian Ostraca and Papyri by Azza Ezzat

“…It has been said that the ancient Egyptians were raised to tolerate all kinds of toil and hardship; they nevertheless also liked to amuse themselves with comic relief in their everyday life. For example, ancient Egyptian drawing can be quite accurate and at times even spirited. …”
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Satirical Frame of Mind: Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and the Literary Engagement with 9/11 by Katherina Dodou

“…Drawing on recent satire theory that views the satirical mode as unruly, various, and open-ended, I suggest that a closer look to the mixed intentions of this novel presents an opportunity to explore the dynamic between denunciation and comic relief in literary satire on 9/11 and opens the way for a more complex understanding of the operation and affordances of literary 9/11 satire.…”
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A feminist analysis of ‘Dhako en …’ (A woman is …) proverbs among the Luo community of Kenya by Daniel Otieno

“…At the superficial level, ‘Dhako en’ proverbs are supposed to entertain by creating comic relief. I argue that the signified is a woman relegated to a mere object of misappropriation, and that the signifiers embody sexual connotations in the pretext of artful use of words verbally. …”
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“Happy wives” and “sad husbands” by God'sgift Ogban Uwen, Godwin Oko Ushie

“…Specifically, the humorous expressions such as “happy wives”, “sad husbands”, “side chicks are hungry” among others were regularly and contextually deployed for comic reliefs and cognitive recreations to stimulate laughter in crisis.  …”
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