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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Aesthetics and Politics of British TV Comedy; Juergen Kamm and Birgit Neumann PART I: THE 1950S AND 1960S: BEGINNINGS OF THE BRITISH SITCOM AND THE SATIRE BOOM 2. A Golden Age of British Sitcom? Hancock?s Half Hour and Steptoe and Son; Richard Kilborn 3. ?Your Little Game?: Myth and War in Dad?s Army (1968-1977); Bernd Lenz 4. ?The Struggle of Class against Class Is a What Struggle?? Monty Python?s Flying Circus and Its Politics; Alexander Brock 5. The Rag Trade: ?Everybody Out!? Gender, Politics and Class on the Factory Floor; Mary Irwin PART II: THE 1970S AND 1980S: NEW LOYALTIES, HISTORIES AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES ? POST-FAMILIAR PARADIGMS 6. ?Sambo? and ?Snowflake?: Race and Race Relations in Love Thy Neighbour; Nora Plesske 7. ?You Snobs! You Stupid... Stuck-Up... Toffee-Nosed... Half-Witted... Upper-Class Piles of... Pus!? Basil Fawlty?s Touch of Class and Other Hotel Matters in Fawlty Towers; Paul Davies 8. Ignorant Master, Capable Servants: The Politics of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister; Juergen Kamm 9. Zany ?Alternative Comedy?: The Young Ones vs. Margaret Thatcher; Eckart Voigts 10. The Uses of History in Blackadder; Gerold Sedlmayr 11. Black British Comedy: Desmond?s and the Changing Face of Television; Deirdre Osborne with some additional information from Stephen Bourne PART III: THE 1990S: (UN)DOING GENDER AND RACE 12. Laughing at Racism or Laughing with the Racists? The ?Indian Comedy? of Goodness Gracious Me; Jochen Petzold 13. Exploding Family Values, Lampooning Feminism, Exposing Consumerism: Absolutely Fabulous; Rainer Emig 14. Comic Strategies of Inclusion and ?Normalisation? in The Vicar of Dibley; Lucia Kr鋗er 15. Subverting the Sitcom from Within: Form, Ideology and Father Ted; John Hill 16. ?The Lady of the House Speaking? - The Conservative Portrayal of English Class Stereotypes in Keeping Up Appearances; Marion Gymnich 17. Family Life in Front of the Telly: The Royle Family; Angela Krewani 18. Old Jokes: One Foot in the Grave, Comedy and the Elderly; Brett Mills PART IV: THE 2000S: BRITCOM BOOM ? NEW BRITAIN = ?COOL BRITANNIA?? 19. Spin, Swearing and Slapstick: The Thick of It (2005-2012); Anette Pankratz 20. Life is Stationary: Mockumentary and Embarrassment in The Office (2001-2003); Philip Jacobi 21. From Ever-lusting Individuals to Ever-lasting Couples: Coupling (2000-2004) and Emotional Capitalism; Joanna Rostek and Dorothea Will 22. The Comic Nation: Little Britain and the Politics of Representation; Oliver Lindner 23. Laughing in Horror: Hybrid Genre and the Grotesque Body in Psychoville; Stephan Karschay Index

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