"Where was King Kong when we needed him?": public discourse, digital disaster jokes, and the functions of laughter after 9/11

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • T. Gournelos
  • V. Greene
Book title A decade of dark humor : how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America
ISBN
  • 9781617030062
Pages (from-to) 20-46
Publisher Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Document type Chapter
Language English
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