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Articles

  1. The Clown Suicides: The Death and Cinematic Afterlife of Marceline Orbes and Francis "Slivers" Oakley, New York's Superstar Clowns, in Charlie Chaplin's Limelight
  2. Darren R. Reid
  3. pp. 157-177
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  1. A Study in the Humor of the Old Northeast: Joseph C. Neal's Charcoal Sketches and the Comic Urban Frontier
  2. David E. E. Sloane
  3. pp. 178-203
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  1. Jewish Humor and Woody Allen's Short Fiction
  2. Amelia Precup
  3. pp. 204-222
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Book Reviews

  1. Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour by Richard Zacks (review)
  2. Kerry Driscoll
  3. pp. 223-226
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  1. Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Katrina Dyonne Thompson (review)
  2. Wesley Scott Mcmasters
  3. pp. 226-229
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  1. The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North by Douglas A. Jones Jr. (review)
  2. Gretchen Martin
  3. pp. 230-235
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  1. Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance by Darryl Dickson-Carr (review)
  2. Madison Priest
  3. pp. 235-238
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  1. Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity After Civil Rights ed. by Derek C. Maus and James J. Donahue (review)
  2. Debarati Byabartta
  3. pp. 239-241
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  1. The Power of Satire ed. by Marijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw (review)
  2. James E. Caron
  3. pp. 242-244
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  1. Is Satire Saving Our Nation? Mockery and American Politics by Sophia A. McClennen and Remy M. Maisel (review)
  2. Matthew R. Meier
  3. pp. 244-247
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  1. Humor and Latina/o Camp in "Ugly Betty": Funny Looking by Tanya González and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson (review)
  2. Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson
  3. pp. 247-250
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  1. All Jokes Aside: Standup Comedy Is a Phunny Business by Raymond Lambert and Chris Bournea (review)
  2. Steven S. Kapica
  3. pp. 251-253
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  1. Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage by Philip Weinstein (review)
  2. Layne Neeper
  3. pp. 254-257
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