Performing Arts · Comedy & Spoken Performance
A topic within Comedy & Spoken Performance, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
2 works
George Meredith
Argues that comedy is society's corrective for pretension and inequality, and that a genuinely comic society requires intellectual equals — including women — capable of laughing at themselves.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Sigmund Freud
Analyses jokes as a technique — condensation, displacement, indirect representation — that lets forbidden aggressive and sexual impulses past the censor for a moment of pleasure, structurally akin to dreamwork.
about 5.5 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026