Editors: Ellie Tomsett and Hazel Collie Family dynamics have long been an area of comic consideration (Mills 2009, Pugh 2018, White 2018). From the evocation of the mother-in-law on the live Working Men’s Club circuit (Double 2014), to the depiction of the nuclear family unit in traditional sitcoms from the 1950s onwards (Jones 1992), the interpersonal tensions of how we get along with our nearest and dearest have become a