Working to Laugh
Thomas, James M.![Working to Laugh](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/171/17188943/CHSBZCOP0317188943.jpg)
Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage.