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The Language of Comedy - for iPod/iPhoneAuthor: The Open University
How do we use language in comedy? What is the social importance of comedy? What are the techniques used with language to create different types of humour? This series looks at how entertainers manipulate language to generate humour, and what this reveals about the nature of comedy and its function in society. Featuring Henning Wehn, on cross cultural humour, Isy Suttie, on crafting a joke and Graham Fellows on creating his character John Shuttleworth. Language: en Genres: Courses, Education, Language Learning Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Creating a character with Graham Fellows
Monday, 11 August, 2014
In what ways do comedians exploit regional variety in the creation of comedy?
