Harmer, humor and the hoopla: in the vanguard of Australian female comedy
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2016
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Joseph, S.
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Swick, D.
Keeble, R.L.
Keeble, R.L.
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Source details - Title: The funniest pages: international perspectives on humour in journalism, 2016 / Swick, D., Keeble, R.L. (ed./s), Ch.14, pp.205-220
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More than a quarter of a century ago, Australian comedian, journalist and author Wendy Harmer compiled and wrote the first book on Australian women’s humor, It’s a Joke, Joyce (1989). In the preface, she claims that she is seeking ‘to redress the balance’ (Harmer 1989: 7) of the missing canon on Australian female comedians.Where there were copious texts on humor and men, women were conspicuous due to their absence. This chapter, firstly discussing humor through a scholarly lens, goes back to claims and observations made in compiling her book, to interrogate a life spent in the comedic spotlight (including being Editor-in-Chief of The Hoopla, an online web news magazine for women) and compare what she believed then to what she believes now from lived experience.
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Copyright 2016 Peter Lang