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Humour and the Unacceptable in Neil Hamburger’s Routine

Daniel Derrin

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This paper addresses the comic routine of Australian born U.S. comedian Gregg Turkington’s alter-ego, ‘Neil Hamburger’, from the perspective of Aristotle’s ancient conception of the risible as a species of the unacceptable, or the unseemly. In doing so, it explores two thresholds of acceptability, subjective and social, which are relevant to an understanding of Hamburger’s comic style. The paper argues that Hamburger’s style willfully violates those thresholds, risking the audience’s laughter, and yet working towards the visualization of a less normative kind of ‘unseemliness’ that underlies Hamburger’s politics: reverence for celebrity and the sacred.

Topik & Kata Kunci

Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration Sociology (General)

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Daniel Derrin

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Derrin, D. (2014). Humour and the Unacceptable in Neil Hamburger’s Routine. https://doi.org/10.5130/portal.v11i2.3207

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Tahun Terbit: 2014
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.5130/portal.v11i2.3207
Akses: Open Access ✓