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EP.5 - Satire & Laughter
Should satire make us laugh? Is satire always funny? Why do we laugh at things anyway? Adam and Jo are joined by Dr Kate Davison (University of Sheffield) to talk about the social history of laughter, and the various satires of the eighteenth-century tavern keeper Ned Ward.
In this episode Jo and Adam and Kate talk about:
Adam’s Funny Game
Adam Smith (from the eighteenth century)
Appropriate/Inappropriate laughter
Brexit
Charles Dickens
Disapprobation
Disease
Doctor, Doctor Jokes
Edward (Ned) Ward
Francisco Garcia
Francis Hutchinson
Friday Night Dinner
Graphic satire from the eighteenth…
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