Outputs (15)

37 funny fragments: the UoS comedy and performance art project assemblage (2023)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I., & Talbot, R. (2023). 37 funny fragments: the UoS comedy and performance art project assemblage. Comedy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2023.2188834

What follows is an account of the ongoing University of Salford (UoS) Comedy and Performance Art Project. This has evolved into a series of staged and recorded ‘Non-Events’ that broadly seek to uncover any interactions between the fields of Comedy... Read More about 37 funny fragments: the UoS comedy and performance art project assemblage.

Introduction to 13:1 (2022)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2022). Introduction to 13:1. Comedy Studies, 13(1), 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610x.2022.2040715

Waves of laughter : comic surfing on Bergson’s mechanical inelasticity (2020)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I., & Diddams, N. (2021). Waves of laughter : comic surfing on Bergson’s mechanical inelasticity. Comedy Studies, 12(1), 91-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2020.1850107

Bergson’s concept of ‘mechanical inelasticity’ from his influential essay Laughter (1900, 2010, 5) remains a staple of comic theory. Bergson’s focus was on what impels laughter in social contexts. In viewing the raising of laughter as a process, i.e.... Read More about Waves of laughter : comic surfing on Bergson’s mechanical inelasticity.

Introduction to issue 11.2 (2020)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2020). Introduction to issue 11.2. Comedy Studies, 11(2), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610x.2020.1729495

Brief introduction to journal issue

Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’ (2019)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2019). Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623506

2019 sees the 50th anniversary of the iconic British television comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC: 1969-74). This article focuses on the concept of ‘Pythonesque’, placing the broadly political satirical content that is evident within... Read More about Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’.

Palgrave studies in comedy (2019)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2019). Palgrave studies in comedy. Comedy Studies, 10(1), 128-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610x.2019.1591665

Book review

The University of Salford Sound of Laughter project (2019)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I., Harrison, L., Brennan, D., Briggs, H., & Battle, L. (2019). The University of Salford Sound of Laughter project. Comedy Studies, 9(2), 245-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2018.1494365

What follows is a report of the University of Salford’s Sound of Laughter Project (2018). This pilot study was set up as an initial attempt to ascertain whether it is possible to discern any meaning from the different laughter sounds that audiences m... Read More about The University of Salford Sound of Laughter project.

Disobedient theatre : alternative ways to inspire, animate and play, by Chris Johnston / Comic performance in Pakistan: The Bhand, by Clare Pamment (2018)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2018). Disobedient theatre : alternative ways to inspire, animate and play, by Chris Johnston / Comic performance in Pakistan: The Bhand, by Clare Pamment. Comedy Studies, 9(1), 116-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610x.2018.1437016

Book review.

Interview with Kate Fox – stand-up poet (2017)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2017). Interview with Kate Fox – stand-up poet. Comedy Studies, 8(2), 217-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610x.2017.1344019

Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer (2017)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2017). Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer. Comedy Studies, 8(2), 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2017.1343971

This article will attempt to reposition comic eccentric dance as a metamorphic form that still, surprisingly, exists, and is to be found with reasonable ubiquity, in renewed incarna-tions within twenty first century media. Tracing the origins of co... Read More about Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer.