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Emma Sullivan
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Comedy research (stand up, literature, visual art). Associate lecturer at the Open University, tutor at the Brilliant Club, freelance writer
https://humourinthearts.com/
I wrote about Luke McQueen's new show; densely inventive, it's an audacious bonfire of the vanities - both his own and the comedy ecosystem more generally.

humourinthearts.com/2025/09/02/c...
September 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I wrote about Aristotle's Cuttlefish, Matthew Dooley's much anticipated follow-up to his debut graphic novel, Flake.

humourinthearts.com/2025/06/27/a...
June 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A celebration of Taskmaster's innovative and gently subversive approach:

humourinthearts.com/2025/06/03/t...
June 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
so delighted to be part of this 'Tasting Funny' EJHR special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories and Nils Couturier.

My article 'Sex comedy: the new vulva and dick jokes' is available now, open access
europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article...
April 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The news that Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana has sold for $5.2m might perpetuate the sense of Cattelan as a con-artist but, as I write here, the piece is perhaps first & foremost a self-portrait.

humourinthearts.com/2019/12/12/m...
November 21, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Miranda July is one of the finalists for the National Book Awards, due to be announced today.
I wrote about her move away from the protection of the comic eccentricity of her earlier characters, to a more daring enactment of intimacy
humourinthearts.com/2024/10/25/m...
November 20, 2024 at 11:58 AM