Category: Blog Post 8 (due Monday April 12 by 5 PM)
Readings:
• Leon Hunt (2013), ‘From alternative to cult: Mapping post-alternative comedy’, in Cult British TV Comedy: From Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville, Manchester: Manchester UP, 1-35
• Gavin Schaffer (2016), ‘Fighting Thatcher with comedy: What to do when there is no alternative’, Journal of British Studies, 55(2), 374-397
• Ian Wilkie (2019), ‘Very silly party politics: surrealism and satire in the “Pythonesque”, Comedy Studies, 10(2), 213-223
Moral Orel
Breaking Into the Boy’s Club – Lydia Hoffman
Oppressive Onstage But Woke Behind It
A New New Wave of Alternative Comedy?
lods of emone – Will Edic
The Pub landlord- Can satire lose its critical stance?
Silly Party Politics: A Diverse Panel of White Men in Bow Ties
Do You Remember The Naked Brothers Band
