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Krefting's new book examines stand-up comedy

November 18, 2014
Beck Krefting's book

Beck Krefting, assistant professor of American Studies, is the author of a new book, All Joking AsideAmerican Humor and Its Discontents, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

According to the publishers web site, Kreftings examination of stand-up comedy establishes a new genre of comedic production, charged humor, and charts its pathways from production to consumption.

Stand-up comics have used charged humor to reveal social, political and economic stratifications, according to the publisher. Kreftings history of charged comedy over the past nearly 70 years highlights the work of a number of comics, including Dick Gregory, Robin Tyler, Moz Jobrani, and Hari Kondabolu.

In an interview with Tracy Wuster of the blog Humor in America, Kreftingherself a comic who has done stand-up and improvetries to determine What words would create the greatest comedic effect and in what order? With 蹤獲弝け serving as host each year to the National College Comedy Festival, Krefting said she gets to teach, mentor, and debate with students who are comedyphiles just like me.

Click to read the Humor in America interview. Visit the publishers web site .

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