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Autism and Comedy Symposium – Comedy on the Spectrum

Comedy on the Spectrum
 A presentation by Prof Michael Fitzgerald at the “Autism and Comedy Symposium” at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Jamuary 2016
Comedians with Autism
This is a provocative and novel investigation of the psyches of sixty artists, predominantly from the world of film, theatre and television/radio – writers, actors, producers and directors ranging from Shakespeare and Voltaire to major late-twentieth-century figures such as Spike Milligan, Sam Peckinpah and Frank Sinatra, by way of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Orson Welles and Judy Garland. Irish artists featured include Oliver St. John Gogarty, Jimmy O’Dea and Richard Harris.
Author: Fitzgerald M. (2015)
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc.New York
ISBN: 978-1-63463-573-8
The Mind of the Artist and other books and free resources
Information for this presentation has come from Prof. Fitzgerald’s recent book “The Mind of the Artist”.
Information about that book along with 31 other books published, co- published and edited by Prof Fitzgerald are on his website.