Welcome to the AHSN long-form conversation podcast "LET'S GET INTO IT". This episode, we get into the law and all things humour with Laura Little, Jessica Milner Davis, and Mark Rolfe.

Laura is a US legal scholar and author of Guilty Pleasures: Comedy and Law in America. She’s an expert in constitutional law and the First Amendment.

Jessica is a world-renowned scholar of humour studies and editor of multiple volumes on satire across cultures. She's the founding convenor of the AustralasianHumour Studies Network.

Mark is a political historian and commentator whose work traces the cultural life of satire in Australian democracy, populism, and public discourse.

Your host for this episode is Ben Nickl. Ben works on technologies of humour, like laughter, and is the research director for the AHSN.

Acknowledgement of Country:

We would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners and custodians of the lands on which the University of Sydney has been built, and which were taken from them without their consent, treaty or compensation. Most episodes of this podcast were recorded on this land.
This land has always been a learning space for many Aboriginal nations, and as teachers and students, and people of all kinds of origins, we can draw strength and guidance from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, one of the oldest knowledge systems in the world.

A small correction for this episode: In the conversation, Jessica mentions December 2011, and it should be 2008.

Get in touch with us:

Want to come on as a guest or co-host, or get in touch aboutsomething else? Simply email benjamin.nickl@sydney.edu.au(AHSN research coordinator and ‘Cutting Edge’ host), visit the AHSN website https://ahsnhumourstudies.org/ and follow/subscribe to us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AHSNHumour/,YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ahsnconferenceor Twitter/X @AHSN_Humour.