L’Islam et l’humour: un rire communautaire ou un rire universel?

Jonathan Ervine

doi:10.3917/tdm.028.0144

L’Islam et l’humour: un rire communautaire ou un rire universel?

Translated title of the contribution: Islam and humor: community-specific humor or universal humor?

Jonathan Ervine

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Abstract

This article analyses what the relationship between humor and Islam demonstrates about media representations of Arabs in France. It concentrates on the humorous French website À part ça tout va bien – which has the slogan « who said that Muslims did not have a sense of humor » – and compares it to the performances of the American trio Allah Made Me Funny. It will examine to what extent these projects are a source of a liberating form of laughter rather than a community-specific laughter, and the conclusions that one can draw from them about media discourses concerning Arabs.

Translated title of the contribution	Islam and humor: community-specific humor or universal humor?
Original language	French
Pages (from-to)	144-157
Journal	Le Temps des médias
Issue number	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3917/tdm.028.0144
Publication status	Published - 31 May 2017

Keywords

Islam
humour
comedy
France
mulitculturalism
diversity
Muslims

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Ervine, J., 20 May 2025, Le stand-up en France : discours, pratiques et enjeux . Leca-Mercier, F. & Kaisarli, Z. (eds.). Louvain-La-Neuve: Academia, p. 41-50 (Au cœur des textes).
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Et si le stand-up n’appartenait pas à la culture urbaine ?
Ervine, J., 24 Nov 2023.
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Le stand-up en France et ses rapports avec l’Amérique
Ervine, J., May 2022.
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28 Feb 2023
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Interview about Charlie Hebdo and French stand-up comedy
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8 Oct 2020
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BBC World Service interview about Charlie Hebdo.
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2 Sept 2020
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L’Islam et l’humour: un rire communautaire ou un rire universel?

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Et si le stand-up n’appartenait pas à la culture urbaine ?

Et si le stand-up n’appartenait pas à la culture urbaine ?

Le stand-up en France et ses rapports avec l’Amérique

Activities

Jonathan Ervine: Humour in Contemporary France

Interview about Charlie Hebdo and French stand-up comedy

BBC World Service interview about Charlie Hebdo.

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