Television Comedy and Femininity

Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be ''funny peculiar'' – playing the underdog or misfit – does a woman seem stranger in his place?
Mapping examples from British and American comedy television over the past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular f...