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Joke structures and politeness strategies in Malaysian stand-up comedy
Published 2018Subjects: “…Comedians - Malaysia…”
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'A West Indian? You must be joking! I come out of the East End': Kenny Lynch and English racism in the 1950's and 1960s'
Published 2012“…He worked as a song-writer, an actor in films and as a stand-up comedian. As Lynch developed his successful career, Britain was in the grip of a race-based scare about West Indian, and South Asian, immigration. …”
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The Jackson jive: Blackface today and the limits of whiteness in Australia
Published 2011“…A similar division in the population occurred when Sam Newman, an ex-Australian Rules footballer and knock about comedian, blacked up in 1999 and pretended to be the Indigenous footballer, Nicky Winmar. …”
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Fan Nation: Harnessing Fandoms For Political Participation
Published 2015“…Currently, two of the icons being heavily marketed by the country’s largest media conglomerate are comedian Vice Ganda and the romantic tandem of Daniel Padilla and Kathryn Bernardo, dubbed as KathNiel, which both target the youth segment. …”
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Recovery is no laughing matter – or is it?
Published 2016“…The comedy workshops involved participants working with a professional comedian-to explore, develop, write and finally perform a stand-up comedy routine drawing from their own personal experiences. …”
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Engaged and/or enraged: The perils of ‘innovative’ digital engagement around health issues
Published 2017“…The campaign, announced at the Sydney Opera House, was due to be launched in December 2015 to coincide with the United Nations International Day of People with Disability and was framed as being in memory of Stella Young, a writer, comedian and disability advocate, who died in December 2014. …”
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Political comedy
Published 2013“…Getting stressed out by the passions and tensions in the run-up to GE13? Thank goodness for comedians who have found a way to see the lighter side of our country’s politics.…”
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JIKEY: preserving the dying arts / Fathiyah Ahmad@Ahmad Jali …[et al.]
Published 2018“…The main characters are comedians, king and warriors. A complete theatrical orchestra for likey includes rebana (with no jingles) in large, medium and small sixes; one tambourine; one hanging, knobbed gong, fare or more pain of cerek, one pair of kesi, an oboe (serunai for Malay or pi for Thai). …”
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Visual Pleasure In Pakistani Cinema (1947–2014)
Published 2014“…For this purpose, it focuses on the chhooimooi girls of the black and white (B&W) cinema from Qaidi (The Prisoner) (1962) and Paristan (The Fairy Land) (1968), as opposed to modern exhibitionist "rain dancers" who reveal their bodies and join terrifying villains and vulgar comedians to make "the trio to get-real-culture" in the coloured Sher-e-Lahore (2001) and Choorrian (Bangles) (2001). …”
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