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'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond (2023)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2023). 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond. In UK and Irish TV Comedy Collection. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23629-7

The global Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 has made the production and dissemination of the comic work of Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limmond (b. Glasgow, 1974) seem innovative to the point of being prophetic. As an established Scottish comic aute... Read More about 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond.

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.

Mechanical inelasticity (2022)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I., & Diddams, N. (2022). Mechanical inelasticity. In J. Gray, & L. Trahair (Eds.), Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy (270). Rowman & Littlefield

Bergson’s concept of ‘mechanical inelasticity’ from Laughter (1900) has become a staple of comic theory. We consider whether this idea retains any resonance for the twenty-first century comic spectator. Locating the theory as originally, and specific... Read More about Mechanical inelasticity.

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.

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader (2019)
Book
Wilkie, I. (2020). I. Wilkie (Ed.), The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429057526

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010. The Reader illustrates the multiple perspectives that are available whe... Read More about The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader.

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’.

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.