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Where other critics have sought to pin comedy down, upholstering it in categories and systems that are anything but funny, Judith Roof finds critical resources in comedy itself: performers such as Fry and Laurie, French and Saunders, Richard Pryor, Louis CK and Amy Schumer teach us everything we need to know about the comic event though their doubling, self-referentiality, layering, cutting, timing and seriality. If you have never had the outrageous pleasure of Judith Roof's company at an academic conference, then The Comic Event - a feat of scholarly stand-up - will serve as the next best thing. * kitt price, Senior Lecturer in English, Queen Mary, University of London, UK *

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Judith Roof is Professor of English and William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University, USA. She has published books and essays on narrative theory, studies in sexuality, Hollywood cinema, DNA, hoaxes, and on the work of such authors as Beckett, Pinter, Duras, Woolf, and Percival Everett.

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