Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics / by Linda Mizejewski.
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TextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.Edition: First editionDescription: x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780292756915 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 792.702/8 23 M8342m
- PN1590.W64 M59 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics: -- Funniness, prettiness, and feminism -- Kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list -- Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina Fey -- Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs" -- Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto -- "White people are looking at you!" Wanda Sykes's black looks -- Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door.