What is it about?
Celebrity chef and Food Network cooking show host Ree Drummond uses humor during her show The Pioneer Woman. Through jokes, teasing, and personal stories, Ree uses humor to add entertainment and enhance her instruction.
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Why is it important?
This article examines how humor is used strategically by female celebrities to comply with and challenge gender norms, specifically in a female-dominant media platform of how-to cooking shows.
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Cooking shows are part of the enormously popular genre of food media. Examining the language of the celebrity chefs helps to understand the continued popularity of food and how it is talked about.
Dr Keri Matwick
Nanyang Technological University
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This page is a summary of: Humor and Performing Gender on TV Cooking Shows, Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, February 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/humor-2017-0093.
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