Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises.

Holly Willson Holladay is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Missouri State University, USA.

Chandler L. Classen is a doctoral candidate in Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Introduction: Humor and/in Crisis Part I: Systems and Institutions 1. "Quiet Quitters": Detectorists, Hobbies and Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism 2. Laughing to Keep from Crying at Abbott Elementary: Humor's Potential in the Teacher Demoralization Crisis 3. The Struggle is Real and It's Hilarious: The Crisis of Choice in Workin' Moms 4. Comedy at Cloud 9: Union Dynamics and Corporate Critique in Superstore 5. Veep, Tragicomedy, ­­­­and the Perpetual Crisis of American Democracy Part II: Identity and Representation 6. Never Have I Ever...Challenged Whiteness 7. "Poor People Can't Afford to Quit Their Jobs to Make Things Better": Working Class Crisis in The Conners 8. "No, the World Is Ending Because of Me": Satire, Neoliberal Crises, and the Millennial Female Subject in Search Party Part III: Speculation and Futurism 9. "It's Better Than Not Trying, Right?": The Good Place and Humor in the Durative Present 10. The Crisis of Technological Reliance and the Spectacle of Authority: Avenue 5's Ironic Depiction of Technology 11. Kinship at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Media and The Last Man on Earth as a Manifesto for Life in Eco-Crisis