“Kill the Puppies!”: Cringe Comedy and Disability Humor in the Live Performances of Laurence Clark

Firmly rooted in disability activism, the emergence of disability studies in the 1980s took place at a time that also witnessed several disabled comedians and activists climb the stage both in the US and the UK. Considering these coinciding developments, it seems perhaps little surprising that disab...

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Main Author: Gesine Wegner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/3/105