Take me seriously. Now laugh at me! How gender influences the creation of contemporary physical comedy
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This article unpacked the complexities of the female comic project, focusing on the creation of physical comedy, via multiple readings of the term "serious" and found that women are too concerned with the grave importance of their reproductive responsibility to make good comedy.Abstract:
This paper unpacks some of the complexities of the female comic project, focusing on the creation of physical comedy, via multiple readings of the term ‘serious’. Does female desire to be taken seriously in the public realm compromise female-driven comedy? Historically, female seriousness has been a weapon in the hands of such female-funniness sceptics as the late Christopher Hitchens, who (in)famously declared that women are too concerned with the grave importance of their reproductive responsibility to make good comedy. The dilemma is clear: for the woman attempting to elicit laughs, she is not serious enough outside the home, and far too serious inside it.read more
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