1. Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America
His main aim is to show how stand-up comedy had been absorbed into mass culture. ... It is this awkwardness that came to change the way people viewed comedy. It was the dawning of a new face of the comedy genre. ... Cringe Comedy is a specific genre of comedy that derives humor from social awkwardness. Often a cringe comedy incorporates and revolves around a serious setting, such as a workplace, to lend the comedy a sense of reality. ...
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