Pretty/funny: women comedians and body politics

Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics:

Funniness, prettiness, and feminism

kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list

Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina fey

Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs"

Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto

"White people are looking at you!" wanda Sykes's black looks

Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door.