ABSTRACT
Humour can be thought of as a taste of happiness and as such is far more complex than it seems. It can be used to 'encourage, even force, others to view an aspect of the human experience from a perspective with which they may not be personally familiar or to consider sides of an issue to which they usually stand in opposition'. The received contradictions of disability humour are addressed increasingly in contemporary representations, meaning academia is more likely to recognise that disability studies can bring much to theories of humour. Cultural Disability Studies in Education (CDSE) discourse about the disabling language of Peep Show is bound to move in the direction of learning difficulties, with which Mark Corrigan sometimes seems somewhat preoccupied. The contradictory point about narrative that tutors and students engaged with CDSE can explore with reference to Peep Show is that the prominent but insubstantial non-normative negativisms often serve an important representational purpose.
