New OA article with @jen-studies-death.bsky.social

How did Paddington Bear - immigrant from Peru - become the go-to British symbol… and its grim reaper? 🐻💀

From Jubilee tea with Queen Elizabeth II to #CreepyPaddington memes, read all here! tinyurl.com/bdeu4tb5

#Paddington #ComedyStudies

Satiric Modernism Published in Comedy Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

In disassociating satire from comedy... Rulo has demonstrated satire’s transhistorical ubiquity when understood as a deconstructivediscourse, rather than a comic device

My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK...

#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire

Thankful to welcome 2 new book chapters into the world from opposite ends of my research interests: #romcom & #pornstudies!
An amuse bouche for #comedystudies feast to follow, “Regenerating ‘Radical Romantic Comedy’ for the Twenty-First Century" kicks off @academic.oup.com HANDBOOK OF SCREEN COMEDY

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) Das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen (KWI) ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungskolleg für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Tradition internationaler Institutes for Advanced Study. Als i...

You can attend "Materiality Matters: Comic Figurations of Bodies and Things" on Zoom via the link on our website below, or, if you would like to join in person, drop me a quick email to roxanne.phillips@kwi-nrw.de by Nov 5th - we would be thrilled!

#ComedyStudies

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NEW EPISODE🚨

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) are having a "dilly dally" summer (the new brat, apparently), talking about new Partridge, new South Park, new Squid Games & 28 Years Later to see if they are satire...

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#satire #podcasts #comedystudies

Affective shifts in political comedy: the move to seriousness in Late Night television In the wake of major moments of crisis, the tone of political comedy often undergoes dramatic shifts, with comedians showing strong emotions as part of their performance. This paper introduces a no...

Thanks for reading!
The full article is open access here:
📄 doi.org/10.1080/2040...
For folks working on satire, emotion, or media trust — let’s talk!
#ComedyStudies #PoliticalCommunication #LateNight #Colbert #AffectiveShifts

Come for the lively & wide-ranging discussion featuring Juvenal, The Inbetweeners, The American Office, Half-Man Half Biscuit, The Divine Comedy, The Beautiful South, The Lancashire Hotpots...

...but stay to hear Jo deliver a highly unique performance 'The Way I Am' by Eminem 🙌

#ComedyStudies

🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨

EP75. Brit Comedy Abroad & Satire in Song

Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) explore the reception of British comedy around the world & consider the role of satire in contemporary music.

Listen now:
t.co/fPQG86W9vC

#ComedyStudies #TalkAboutSatire

Adam was sharing the last news from the York Research Unit for the Study of Satire at the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Research Centre summit today.

Read more here:
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#comedystudies #satire #talkaboutsatire

EP73. Satire in Suburbia (& in Amandaland)

Jo & Adam ask why so much satire is set in Suburbia. Featuring #Amandaland #DavidLynch #Pulp & much more... (also, #Mickey17)

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#satire #comedystudies #talkaboutsatire

In which we also learn about the concept of "weaponized incompetence" & discover that George Test once described the act of doing satire as being "like trying to put a shadow in a sack..."

#Nightbitch #ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire #20thC

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

EP.72. "Nightbitch, please": Musk, Motherhood, Modernism & Satire

Jo & Adam dissect the film #Nightbitch, Kevin Rulo's SATIRIC MODERNISM & the satirical responses to Elon's... "wave"?

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#ComedyStudies #Satire #ElonMusk #Motherhood #Modernism

We covered *a lot* in this one, including Prof Paul Simpson’s concept of satire as an echoic discourse, which helps us disambiguate between satirical & non-satirical parody.

Plus, Samuel Johnson, Charlotte Brontë & Nosferatu.

#18C #19C #ComedyStudies #Nosferatu #TheTraitors

‘But I don’t watch television!’ Keeping late-night comedy and political satire relevant for the audience What happens when members of the audience no longer sit in front of the television to be entertained by a regular late-night comedy and political satire broadcasts, choosing instead to access infor...

Excited to be a part of #ComedyStudies' special issue on the future of #politicalcomedy. I didn't expect this piece out so soon, but here's my take on what #latenight and #politicalsatire programs need to do to remain relevant for young audiences: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RUX8P...

For a version of this call for abstracts that can be read by assistive software please contact Ellie.tomsett@bcu.ac.uk

For a version of this call for abstracts that can be read by assistive software please contact Ellie.tomsett@bcu.ac.uk

A good excuse for my first post! Super happy to share a call for chapter abstracts for an edited collection on representations of adult children and their parents in TV comedy. Some excellent people on board already and we are looking for more. Take a look #comedystudies