Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak

1. Introduction: Mocking the Weak? Contexts, Theories, Politcs, Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott.2. Taking Liberties? Free Speech, Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Satire, Anshuman A. Mondal.3. Openness, Otherness, and Expertise: Uncertainty and Trust in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Rob Hawkes.4. British Multiculturalism, Romantic Comedy, and the Lie of Social Unification, Sarah Ilott.5. Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle's Show and Key & Peele, Janine Bradbury.6. Blackness and Banal Whiteness: Abjection and Identity in the Italian Christmas Comedy, Alan O'Leary.7. Sexual and National Difference in the high-speed, popular surrealism of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau's double acts, 1929-1936, Neil Washbourne.8. From Terry and June to Terry and Julian: June Whitfield and the British Suburban Sitcom, Rosie White.9. Saintly Cretins and Ugly Buglys: Laughing at Victorian Disability in Hunderby, Helen Davies.10. Standing Up to False Binaries in Humour and Autism: A Dialogue, Kate Fox.11. Comedy and the Representation of the British Working Class from On the Buses to This is England '90, Tracy Casling.12. Theorising Post-Socialist Sitcom: Imported Form, Vernacular Humour and Taste Boundaries on the Global Periphery, Dejan Jontes and Andreja Trdina.13. Smile, Hitler? Nazism and Comedy in Popular Culture, Jason Lee.14. POTUS Stand-up: The White House Correspondents' Dinner, Sheryl Tuttle Ross.