Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics

Index

251 Index Italic page numbers indicate photographs. ABC network: and Ellen DeGeneres’s coming out, 197, 200; and Margaret Cho’s sitcom, 125, 135, 153 Abdul, Paula, 202 abjection: and the body (especially the female, raced, or queer body), 20, 27, 95, 97–98, 107, 110–111, 121–122, 180, 184, 208, 215, 222n7, 227n1; and camp, 53; and the fag hag, 143; and Jewish comedians, 228–229n13; and Kathy Griffin’s comedy, 17, 26, 31, 53, 223n2; and Mae West, 20; and Princess Diana, 217; and Sarah Silverman’s comedy, 95, 97–98, 107, 110–111, 121– 122, 184; and recovery from addiction, 137; and stand-up comedy, 15, 222n7, 223n2; and Wanda Sykes, 184 abortion. See reproductive rights addiction, 27, 125, 130–139, 230nn9,11 Admission (2013), 10 The Advocate, 149, 164, 171, 185, 203 Afghanistan war, 198–199 African American comedy: anger in, 171; hip appeal of, for white audiences , 178–179, 232n6; as the “humor of the oppressed,” along with Jewish comedy, 112–116; influence of, in twentieth century, 18, 113; reactions of white audiences to, 231–232n2; rhetorical devices of, 166–167; and the “truthsayer” tradition, 176–177; women in, 18–19, 162, 181. See also Sykes, Wanda African Americans: and the “black best friend” cliché, 161–162; and the black middle class, 157, 170, 180, 185; female, as the antithesis of white femininity and beauty, 24, 155–156, 163, 170, 180; films targeted at, 23; and homosexuality, 180, 185–186, 224n13, 232n8; in Kathy Griffin’s audience, 48–49; rewarded for “acting white,” 77; sexuality of, as performers , 18–19; sexuality of, as stereotype , 156, 157–158, 161, 168, 180–181, 184; and the white gaze/policing of respectability, 28, 129, 157–158, 159–161, 163, 165, 168, 170, 179–181, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188–189. See also African American comedy; African American female stereotypes African American female stereotypes: angry black woman, 28, 155, 157, 162– 163, 167–170, 171, 172, 232n3; Jezebel, 252 P R E T T Y| F U N N Y 24, 157, 161, 168, 180; mammy, 81, 161, 163, 168; Sapphire, 24, 163, 167– 170, 171, 232n3 AIDS, 95, 139, 150, 161, 217 Alcoholics Anonymous, 136, 230nn7,9. See also recovery narratives All-American Girl (1994–1995), 27, 125– 126, 131, 132, 134–135, 140, 150, 151– 154, 173, 195, 229–230n6, 231n18 Allen, Robert, 18 Allen, Woody, 21 All in the Family (1971–1979), 118 Ally McBeal (1997–2002), 75, 79, 81, 133 American Idol (2002–), 202, 207–208 American Pie (1999), 94 Anchorman (2004), 78 Anderson, Sam, 93, 96, 114 Aniston, Jennifer, 34 Anthony, Susan B., 79 anti-Semitism, 103, 110–116, 120, 199, 228nn8–12 Aoki, Guy, 117, 120–121 Are You There, Chelsea? (2012), 162 The Aristocrats (2005), 96 Aristotle, 99 Arthurs, Jane, 69 Asian Americans: as immigrants, 229n2; and Sarah Silverman’s use of the word “Chink,” 93, 115, 117–121; stereotypes of, 127–129, 135, 141, 148–149, 161, 229n1, 229–230n6. See also Cho, Margaret: Asian American identity/body of Assassin (2005), 132, 145 Attack of the Show! (2005–2012), 87 autobiography, 125–126, 130, 131, 133, 138, 141. See also manifesto, autobiographical rhetoric of; recovery narrative Babuscio, Jack, 53, 54, 55 Bacalzo, Dan, 125, 126, 133, 142, 230–231n12 Back at the Barnyard (2007–2011), 155 Bailey, Pearl, 18, 162, 172 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 22, 23, 27, 36, 75, 95, 98, 100–101, 105, 188, 197, 218, 227nn2–4 Baldwin, Alec, 66, 83 Ball, Lucille, 1, 6, 16, 20, 224n12 Ballard, Scotty, 173 Bam Bam and Celeste (2005), 145–146, 151–152 Bamboozled (2000), 115 Banjo, Omotayo, 166, 231–232n2 Barr, Roseanne, 1, 10, 20, 23, 26, 102 Barrymore, Drew, 20 Barth, Belle, 19 Bataille, George, 101 Beavis and Butthead (1993–1997, 2011), 94 The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption , and Pee (Silverman), 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 101, 102, 117, 118–119 Bee, Samantha, 11 The Beginning (2000), 198, 200–201 Behar, Joy, 2, 201 Belushi, John, 22, 103 Benson, Bea Bea, 19 Bergen, Candace, 201 Berger, John, 14 Bernhard, Sandra, 97 Berry, Halle, 23, 50 Bieber, Justin, 217 Billig, Michael, 113, 116, 228n8 bin Laden, Osama, 165 Bitch Magazine, 96 Black, Jack, 20, 21 black comedy. See African American comedy black stereotypes. See African American stereotypes Blonde Venus (1932), 113 Blue Collar TV (2004–2006), 94 Bociurkiw, Marusya, 16, 195, 204, 210, 216 body, female: in American popular entertainment in the early twenti- [3.138.141.202] Project MUSE...