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- The Editor’s Drawers
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Abstract: Dear Readers,It is with great pride, pleasure, and a bit of anxiety that I assume the role of editor for Studies in American Humor. I first joined the journal in 2016, succeeding Tracy Wuster as book review editor, and in 2018, I moved into an associate editor role. Working on the journal these past seven years has proven to be one of the great pleasures of my professional life. During that time, the country and the world have grown increasingly dangerous, unstable, and unpredictable, and the national discourse around just about every social and cultural issue, ranging from education to medicine to civil rights, has become more volatile. (I’m sure you don’t need me, dear reader, to catalog the various national ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- On Second Thought
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Abstract: Editors:Reading Grace Heneks’s analysis of the Black satirical critique of the white embrace of postracialism in “‘We Cool'’ Satirizing Whiteness in Obama-Era Black Satire” made me think of Richard Pryor’s lament in his 1976 routine Bicentennial Prayer: “How long will this bullshit go on'”1 Heneks’s article documents the practices of casual racism, drawing on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s concept of new racism, thereby pointing to the fine line between white liberalism and white supremacy: the white liberal fears being called racist; the white supremacist fears a truly postracial and pluralistic society. Both choose silence to maintain the status quo. White claims that we have entered an era of postracialialty—white ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- “Making Such Spaces . . . Where None Previously Existed”: Interstitial
Wit in Fran Ross’s Oreo-
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Abstract: On February 7, 2019, fashion megalith Gucci announced that it was removing a particular item from its highly touted winter line. The piece in question was a $890 knit turtleneck sweater whose roll-up collar could go around the face in addition to the neck; it was black except for the bright, red outline of two bulbous lips around the mouth. Modeled by a white woman with dark blonde hair, the sweater sparked outcry by those who recognized it as an uncanny evocation of an archetypical minstrel pose. Amid an international furor fueled by Black women activists on Twitter, many of whom used humor to point out the sweater’s offensiveness, Gucci retracted the garment, and the conversation about racial commodification soon ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- “A Punch Back, . . . a Contagious Guffaw”: Feminist Humor in The
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Abstract: In a mournful rumination over stand-up comedy in episode 3 of season 1 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–19) that takes place between the fictionalized version of Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby), the famous mid-twentieth century American comic, and Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), an aspiring comic and protagonist, one senses the despair and the determination that surrounds the representation of this profession:I’m tired. I’m getting tired.Yeah. I know what you mean. Sometimes I think, “Is it worth it'”And sometimes I think, “No.”I’m Sisyphus, without the fabulous hair and the loincloth, pushing that boulder up that hill over and over and over.Try it in heels.1The three seasons of this show, created by Amy ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- Playing with the (Gendered) Rules of Stand-Up: Alternative Aesthetics of
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Abstract: Probably nothing provokes more groans among comedy-interested audiences than bringing up the by now exhaustively disproven idea that women aren’t funny. The debate has run its course in popular and academic circles alike. And yet acknowledging the simple fact that women are (very) funny calls on us to examine the nuanced reasons why female comedy performers have historically been rather marginalized in the field. Especially in the case of US stand-up culture, we can still observe at least the remnants of an initial gender hierarchy that formed the practice in the days of the first comedy boom. Yet gender hierarchies in stand-up did not collapse in a linear way, because comedic practice is not unchanging and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- Dispatches from the Farm: The Literary Craft of John Gould’s Maine
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Abstract: The state of Maine, long known for its salty Down East humor, has produced a disproportionate number of American humorists. One of the first was Seba Smith of Portland, whose groundbreaking work in political satire in the early nineteenth century was much imitated in his day. Charles Farrar Browne, who went by the pen name of Artemas Ward, pioneered the unsophisticated bumpkin who relies on misspelled, misused, and mispronounced words to manufacture a laugh (he was Abraham Lincoln’s favorite humorist). During the Gilded Age, Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye moved past the cheap laughs garnered by Ward’s deployment of mangled language to a more sophisticated version of humor using understatement, anticlimax, and colorful ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021
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Abstract: A funny thing happened on the way to this essay–we decided to eliminate over one hundred possible entries! Why would we do such a thing' Because, dear reader, the scholarship in humor studies published in 2021 is an embarrassment of riches. Across and within disciplines, scholars are exploring fascinating questions related to humor in diverse contexts. From discerning unique rhetorical features of a stand-up comic’s discourse to generating new humor theory, humor scholars are a prolific and provocative bunch. As has been the case in recent years, two particularly popular areas of humor research are online humor (especially memes), and humor in films and television shows. Additionally, in 2021, many scholars focused ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them by Matt
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Abstract: As the media landscape has grown increasingly fragmented over the last thirty years, it has become increasingly difficult to be cognizant of, let alone consume, all the different forms of media. In That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them, Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx investigate the sizable array of right-wing comedy forms that have flown under the radar of the politically left. They scrutinize the extensive variety of right-wing comic forms, probe liberal myopia about the appeal of right-wing comedy, and explore the implications of its popularity.Sienkiewicz and Marx posit five categories of right-wing comedy and devote a chapter to each: Fox News’ comedy programming, “paleocomedy,” ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- Hollywood Screwball Comedy, 1934–1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals
by Grégoire Halbout (review)-
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Abstract: Known for its madcap antics, fast-paced dialogue, and marital tumult, screwball comedy is an enduring American film genre that grew roots in the late-interwar years. In Hollywood Screwball Comedy, 1934–1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals, a translation of his book published in France in 2013, Grégoire Halbout explores the genre’s multifaceted hybridity, describing the aesthetic, sociological, political, and economic factors of the 1930s and early 1940s that enabled screwball practitioners to find “a receptive audience” in the United States. Classical Hollywood-era screwball comedies reflect American society in flux, marred by “economic crisis and . . . upheaval” (3) and shifting ideas about democracy. They ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy ed. by Regina Barreca
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Abstract: Rereading a work first encountered many years earlier always yields surprises. A month ago, I discovered on eBay a copy of a 1955 anthology that was a mainstay of my childhood, A Treasury of Humor and Toastmaster’s Handbook. Intended for adults, it found its way nonetheless into my young hands, and I read all of it with glee (though I did not have the least idea what was meant by a “toastmaster” and assumed it had something to do with bread). There were favorite selections to which I returned so often that I came near to memorizing them, especially Cornelia Otis Skinner’s hilarious reflections on the world of dieting, “The Body Beautiful.” Years later, I could still recall the description of the narrator ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980
ed. by Dan Nadel (review)-
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Abstract: This book examines the work of nine Black cartoonists who were mostly ignored by mainstream newspapers and who were among the artists featured at an exhibit that the editor, Dan Nadel, curated for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2021. In his introduction, Nadel notes the goal of this collection is to highlight the work of artists who used cartoons as a “medium for independent and personal expression” (6). Yet the strength of the work included here is not its avoidance of controversial political issues but rather its confrontation with racism. Cartoonists use humor to provide powerful commentary on society.The book makes one point clear: at a time when Jim Crow laws were still in place in the 1940s and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late
Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Carrie Conners (review)-
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Abstract: Carrie Conners’s Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry is a delight to read. She argues that while “humorous social and political critique” (4) of contemporary American poetry has been the subject of several studies, specifying Ronald Wallace’s God Be with the Clown: Humor in American Poetry and Calista McRae’s Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America, there is much still to be said about the topic, especially on specific genres that are often overlooked such as prose poems and epics. Conners’s study explores the work of four poets writing between the 1960s and 2001: Harryette Mullen, Russell Edson, Edward Dorn, and Marilyn Hacker. Each ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire by Brandon J.
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Abstract: In Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire, Brandon J. Manning argues that Black male satire often pokes and prods the expanses of Blackness to question how race, gender, and class function (9). However, Manning maintains that “as Black men argue for a more nuanced understanding of identity and self-expression against the backdrop of American racial politics, they often do so at the expense of Black women in their work” (17). This is the central question of Played Out: How does Black satire move beyond centering Black men as “race men”' In this excellent survey of Black male satire in the twenty-first-century, Manning details various challenges to the “race man” (“a singular leader for Black ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
- Who’s Laughing Now: Feminist Perspectives on Humour and Laughter ed. by
Anna Lise Frey (review)-
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Abstract: This collection of essays focuses on feminism’s and feminists’ use of defiant humor and laughter as a tool to push back against the dominant powers that seek to tell the world that “women aren’t funny.” The book is comprised of ten chapters and an introduction. The contributors come from a variety of educational and professional backgrounds; one contributor is a sexual health counselor, another a master’s candidate in environmental anthropology, and yet another a PhD in political economy in feminist media. The wide range of perspectives is part and parcel of what makes the collection’s emphasis on comic pushback so compelling.In the book’s introduction, editor Anna Frey begins by pointing out that women are as ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
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