His deadpan poetic interludes made him a standout. Chelsea Brown, one of the first African American women on Laugh-In, died March 27, 2017, at age 74 from pneumonia. Teresa Graves, who brought ...

In her book The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter, the media scholar Kathleen Rowe Karlyn remarks that when women laugh on film and television, they reframe themselves as subjects ...