Exclusion-from-the-Social-Order
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.155
Outside and Inside > The Impossibility of Comparisons
Theoretical move: The passage establishes two structurally necessary forms of comedy—exclusion-from-the-social-order (Chaplin) versus internal contradiction-within-the-social-order (Keaton)—arguing that where lack and excess coincide determines comedy's relationship to ideology and emancipation, and that Keaton's internal excess produces a more radical social critique precisely because it does not confine the comic object to a marginal outside.
They show how comedy can emerge through exclusion from the social order or through that order's internal contradictions. Chaplin embodies exclusion