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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword by Michele A’Court
Introduction
1. Bloody laughter: war and the birth of New Zealand comedy
2. Comedy and writers: blokes, bastards and outbreaks of beauty
3. Lessons in comedy: universities and capping revues
4. ‘Bold and blue’: female impersonators, cabaret and variety
5. Comedians and politicians: ‘stuff that doesn’t really matter’
6. Comedy and theatre: million-dollar ideas
7. Directors on the edge: comedy on screen
8. The start of it: TV comedy up to the 1980s
9. John Clarke: the man from the audience
10. Billy T. James: between two worlds
11. The Topp Twins: only in New Zealand
12. The Front Lawn: sons of the suburbs
13. Live comedy in the 1980s and 1990s: looking for a place to stand (up)
14. Breaking the rules: TV in the 1990s and beyond
15. Naked in the house of spirits: Samoan comedy
16. Live comedy in the twenty-first century: the new establishment
17. Kin folk: Flight of the Conchords
18. Taika Waititi: a Māori in space
19. Rose and other names: a new comedy generation
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration credits
Acknowledgements
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