Chapter 1 Introduction: Charting the Territory of 21st-Century Cringe Humor-Virginie Iché (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry) & Célia Schneebeli (Université Bourgogne Europe).- Chapter 2 Dimensions and Loci of Cringe Humor: The Case of 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown- Alexander Brock (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg).- Chapter 3 How Cringe Humor Spices Up Talk Show Interactions- Agnieszka Piskorska (University Warszawski).- Chapter 4 Talk Show Cringe Humor: A Multimodal Approach to the Pragmatics of Play-Awkwardness in Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis-Jacob Rigal (University Paris Cité) & Dima Alkhateeb (University of Groningen).- Chapter 5 British vs American Cringe Comedy: Cultural Differences in Embarrassment Hum- Marc Hye-Knudsen (Aarhus University).- Chapter 6 To Cringe or Not to Cringe: The Role of Cultural and Age Variability in the Perception of Covid-19 Humor- Luca Bischetti (University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia).- Chapter 7 Heterocringe Navigating the Limits of Cringe Humor in the Critique of Heteronormativity on Instagram- Alice Cesbron (University Paris Cité & Universität Greifswald).- Chapter 8 "Extremely painful to endure.

Good work" The Pragmatics of Cringe Humor Reception on YouTube- Célia Schneebeli (Université Bourgogne Europe).- Chapter 9 Ambivalent Comedians and their Streamed Comedy Specials- Thomas C. Messerli (University of Basel).- Chapter 10 Hannah Gadsby''s Nanette: Cringeworthy and Funny, but Not Cringe Comedy- Lynn Blin (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry).- Chapter 11 From Cringe Humor to Empathy in Fleabag- Adeline Terry (University Jean Moulin Lyon 3).- Chapter 12 Resisting Cringe(worthy) Linguistic Film Stereotypes in Everyday Talk-Sylvia Sierra (Syracuse University).