Comedy of the Signifier
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.134
Signification and Desire > The Ability to Say the Wrong Thing
Theoretical move: The passage argues that the signifier structurally unites lack and excess, making comedy the fundamental mode of signification rather than communication; subjects engage excessively with language not to convey meaning but to seek satisfaction and fill their constitutive lack through an appeal to the desire of the social authority.
every signifier does have the basic structure of comedy insofar as it unites lack and excess.