If You Don't Laugh You'll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World)

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I had seen Angie Kent on Gogglebox, so I was interested in reading about what goes on in her life when the cameras are gone.

An insightful and heartbreaking work. . . . Schmidt successfully negotiates her dual roles of ethnographer and kin through critical analysis of the humor which is considered necessary to navigating a difficult career working in Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections.”

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The movie is oddly touching because it is so hilarious. A few times I had to stop the movie because I was laughing so hard. A lot of the humor comes from just how true the subject matter is. Ron Howard does a great job adding humor to some of the situations. I was very surprised by just how good this movie was. I expected just another Steve Martin vehicle, but this was much, much more then that.

The cast is crazy good in this movie. So many big names and they are all great. The performance I enjoyed the most was from a preteen Joaquin Phoenix, credited as Leaf Phoenix. He plays Garry, a kid who is emotionally distant from his mother and enraged at his father for leaving him and not caring about him. Phoenix shows the power that he would go on to display for years at such a young age in a scene where he decides he wants to live with his father for awhile. When he makes the call and is disappointed by the answer, Phoenix gives an emotional and powerful side to a character that for the first part of the movie just said Bye and left the room. She also missed out on a winner when Menelaus – one of rides she was booked for at Thirsk on Monday – landed the 1m4f handicap.

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Angie's book deserves to be handed out to teenage girls during health class as she gives practical lessons on love, life, mental health, body issues, dogs and more. This book could be really helpful for young women. They’re repeating the show this weekend, so if you get a chance, regardless of your political leaning, please do go along. You’ll be supporting local business & I promise it won’t disappoint. And what am I studying? Something I have been doing for a long time, “Advising family businesses”. I just wanted to add some more tools & frameworks to my toolkit – so now I hopefully learned more about Succession planning & Entrepreneurial renewal as well as strengthening my knowledge of Strategic planning & Governance.