Self-deprecatory Humour and the Female Comic:
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explores the stance of women in comedy and in particular the assumption that self-deprecatory humour is the domain of female comics. Examining the standup routines of eighty-six performers--twenty-two female, sixty-four male--from the mid-1980s to the 1990s comedic strategies are isolated by type and the gender of the comedian. The transcripts of the routines are specifically analyzed in terms of the targets of the satire and the degree of hostility (whether self or socially directed) involved. Context for the analysis consists of a section on three comics well-known for self-putdowns: Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers, and Rodney Dangerfield. The results of this study reveal that female comics are no relying on self-deprecation as a sustained style. It is no longer the survival strategy it once was for women in comedy. As the presence of female comics increases the need to assuage audience fear/hostility decreases. The mask of self-loathing is removed and the comedic observations are given full voice.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it