Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a 'Good' Sense of Humour

By Sam Friedman

Book Overview

Comedy and Distinction provides the first ever empirical examination of British comedy taste. Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews carried out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this book explores what types of comedy people like (and dislike), what their preferences reveal about their sense of humour, how comedy taste lubricates everyday interaction, and how issues of social class, gender, ethnicity and geographical location interact with patterns of comic taste.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138125903
• ISBN13: 9781138125902
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"