Inequality in Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy in the UK

Claire Sedgwick was awarded her PhD by De Montfort University, Leicester in 2017 and developed that research into a book: Feminist Media: From the Second Wave to the Digital Age that was published by Rowman and Littlefield International in 2020. In addition, she has a book chapter in Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain (2020). Her current project on The Cultural Economy of Comedy in the East Midlands on which this book project is based, was funded by a BA/ Leverhulme Small Research Grant.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Comedy as a Cultural Industry.- Chapter 2 : Comedy, Diversity, and the Hegemonic Comedian.- Chapter 3: Exploring Inequality in Comedy in the East Midlands and Challenging Inequality.- Chapter 4: COVID-19, Precarity and Comedy.- Chapter 5: Conclusion: The Future of Comedy.