Publications
Publication details [#55219]
Seirlis, Julia Katherine. 2011. Laughing all the way to freedom?: Contemporary stand-up comedy and democracy in South Africa. Humor 24 (4) : 513–530. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study discusses how stand-up comedy raises questions regarding the quality of and limits to democracy in post-apartheid South Africa. It does so by telling a before democracy and after apartheid story in its relationship to comedians and comedy venues.