Ethics in Comedy: Essays on Crossing the Line

ISBN-13: 9781476676418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 260 str.

Steven A. Benko

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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction (Steven A. Benko) 1
Part One: Laughter, Ethicists and Ethics
Toward an Objective Ethic of Humor (Jennifer Marra) 17
Closing the Comic Loophole: Reframing the Aesthetics
and Ethics of Comedy (Shouta Brown) 28
What Is Kant's Theory of Humor? (Robert R. Clewis) 40
The Justice of the Funny (Liz Sills) 57
Otherwise Than Laughter: Levinas and an Ethics of Laughter (Steven A. Benko) 71
Part Two: Laughter, Gender and Race Minority Report: Joking About the Other (Rebecca Krefting) 87
That's Way Too Aggressive a Word: Aziz Ansari, Comedy of Incongruity and Affectively Charged Feminism (Steven A. Benko and Eleanor Jones) 99
The Boondocks and the Ethics of Black Comic Rage (Christophe D. Ringer ) 113
Relief and Revelation: The Ethics of Comedy in the #MeToo Era Through Dave Chappelle's The Bird Revelation (Olivia Moorer) 126
Part Three: Laughter and Late Night Blowing Off Steam: Freud, Smut and Samantha Bee's Political ­Comedy (Erica A. Holberg) 141
The Vices and Virtues of David Letterman (Cindy Muenchrath Spady) 154
The Complex Ethics of Jimmy Kimmel as Confidence Man
and Scientific Communicator (Shelly A. Galliah) 167
Part Four: Laughter and Ridicule Ethical Features of Derogatory Humor in Medical Settings (Ralph H. Didlake and Caroline E. Compretta) 185
Laughter, Bodily Pain and Ethics in YouTube Fail Videos (Jonathan Peter Wright) 197
Laughing with "Horrible" People: Reaffirming Ethical Boundaries Through Laughter (Nicole Graham) 210
The Caring Practical Joke (David K. McGraw) 223
"Laughter is not our medicine": Hannah Gadsby's Nanette
and the Balm of Comedy (Grant Moss) 232
About the Contributors 245
Index 249