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Humour without reason

the nonsense of absurd humour

Nicholas Holm

pp. 149-177

Abstrakt

This chapter focuses on absurd humour through an analysis of The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park. Absurd humour is a form of the comic premised upon the abandonment of everyday regimes of sense and meaning and does not therefore adhere to the expected system of rules and logics that structure any given system. This chapter presents the argument that the expanding logic of comic absurdity seen in these texts promotes a mode of reading that is extremely tolerant with regards to formal deviation, uncertainty and ambiguity and accepting of contradiction and inconsistency as sources of pleasure rather than anxiety.

Publication details

Published in:

Holm Nicholas (2017) Humour as politics: the political aesthetics of contemporary comedy. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Seiten: 149-177

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50950-1_6

Referenz:

Holm Nicholas (2017) Humour without reason: the nonsense of absurd humour, In: Humour as politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 149–177.