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Publication details [#66486]

Howell, William. 2019. Judgments, Corrections, and Audiences: Amy Schumer's Strategies for Narrowcast Satire. Studies in American Humor 5 (1) : 70–92.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
audience | comedy | humor | internet | judgment | laughter
Place, Publisher
Penn State University Press

Annotation

This paper examines three sketches from Amy Schumer and the commentary about those sketches, finding that Schumer's satire makes harsher judgments and becomes less laughable the more narrowly it is cast.