@emma-sullivan @EmmaLMSullivan
Comedy research (stand up, literature, visual art). Associate lecturer @OpenUniversity, tutor @BrilliantClub, freelance writer @theskinnymag humourinthearts.com Edinburgh Joined October 2019-
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@emma-sullivan retweeted
After 20 years of independent cultural journalism and with a very heavy heart, September’s edition of The Skinny is our final issue 💔 Read our full statement on our website: theskinny.co.uk/music/news/the…
'I want acts who read. Who watch old things, or unpopular things, or consume only beat poetry for six months before they write their show' chortle.co.uk/correspondents…
my review of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art in Comedy Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@emma-sullivan retweeted
Conference season never ends! Submit your abstract to SatiReNet conference (University of Copenhagen, November 19-20) by August 31! See more details here: nordmedianetwork.org/latest/call-fo…
theskinny.co.uk/festivals/edin… Money may well be one of the last taboos but the convention that it's gauche or even vulgar to talk about ultimately serves only the privileged few - @theskinnymag
@emma-sullivan retweeted
'We'd been shown with blackface, head-waggling and the terrible accent, and we wanted to own that and turn it upside-down' | On 30 years of Goodness Gracious Me ift.tt/JfMEgqt
@emma-sullivan retweeted
Submit your manuscript for "(Un)Just Joking? On the Global Dimensions of Right-Wing Humor" - a new special issue of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies! Abstracts are due by 1 October 2026. See details here: jrws.berkeley.edu/unjust-joking-…
newyorker.com/culture/the-ne… "There’s certainly irony in this movie. There’s certainly camp. But to me they were always integrated, the comedy and the drama and the emotion and the outrageousness of it. I never saw them as isolated components"
newyorker.com/culture/person… “The difference between comedy and horror is the music.”
BREAKING: Pretext for Putting Pics of Hot Women in Article Found, by @jeffmaurer1980 open.substack.com/pub/imightbewr…
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This is the perfect response to a question that should not have been asked to the only female on the panel.
newyorker.com/culture/infini… re Kirk’s pairing with Epstein: 'by caricaturizing them in a brain-rot edit, they are transformed into absurdist avatars whose complexities are flattened into a winking shrug'
Confess to what you did, you monster : Video 2026 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide chortle.co.uk/video/2026/04/…
How a new generation of comics is changing the face of Jewish comedy — and Judaism itself forward.com/culture/807625…
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Weekend catch-up: How The Harry Hill Show could be the future of podcasts dlvr.it/TRlRVJ
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