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Contents Acknowledgments ix intROduCtiOn. Pretty/Funny Women and Comedy’s Body Politics: Funniness, Prettiness, and Feminism 1 ChaPteR One. Kathy Griffin and the Comedy of the D List 30 ChaPteR twO. Feminism, Postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: Picturing Tina Fey 59 ChaPteR thRee. Sarah Silverman: Bedwetting, Body Comedy, and “a Mouth Full of Blood Laughs” 92 ChaPteR fOuR. Margaret Cho Is Beautiful: A Comedy of Manifesto 123 ChaPteR five. “White People Are Looking at You!” Wanda Sykes’s Black Looks 155 ChaPteR six. Ellen DeGeneres: Pretty Funny Butch as Girl Next Door 190 Notes 221 Bibliography 235 Index 251 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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