In this Issue

Table of Contents

The Editor's Drawers

Lawrence Howe
pp. 1-2
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A First Second Thought: Bring on the Irony

Ben Click
pp. 3-5
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Special Issue: Satire Today

An Introduction to the Special Issue

James E. Caron
pp. 6-12
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An Ethics of Complicit Criticism for Postmodern Satire

Jonathan P. Rossing
pp. 13-30
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"Deplorable" Satire: Alt-Right Memes, White Genocide Tweets, and Redpilling Normies

Viveca S. Greene
pp. 31-69
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Judgments, Corrections, and Audiences: Amy Schumer's Strategies for Narrowcast Satire

William Howell
pp. 70-92
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Hannah Gadsby: On the Limits of Satire

Rebecca Krefting
pp. 93-102
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"You Think I'm Joking": Examining the Weaponized Comedy of President Obama's Stand-Up Addresses at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

James Nixon
pp. 103-123
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Of Satire and Gordian Knots

Christopher J. Gilbert
pp. 124-156
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Review Essay

The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2017

Bruce Michelson
pp. 157-242
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Book Reviews

Satirizing Modernism: Aesthetic Autonomy, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde by Emmett Stinson (review)

Brian O'Sullivan, Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
pp. 243-246
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Isn't That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy by Steven Gimbel (review)

Michael Dalebout
pp. 247-250
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Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture ed. by Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe (review)

Michael Epp
pp. 250-252
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Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl and the Birth of American Comedy by James Curtis (review)

David Gillota
pp. 253-255
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Drawn to the Gods: Religion and Humor in "The Simpsons," "South Park," and "Family Guy" by David Feltmate (review)

Silas Kaine Ezell
pp. 256-259
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Humor in Modern American Poetry ed. by Rachel Trousdale (review)

Calista McRae
pp. 259-262
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The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism, and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley (review)

Burke Hilsabeck
pp. 262-265
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy by Todd McGowan (review)

Rachel Trousdale
pp. 265-267
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Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books by Michael Barrier (review)

Kerry Soper
pp. 267-270
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Humor as Politics: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy by Nicholas Holm (review)

Matthew R. Meier
pp. 270-273
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Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist by William E. Ellis (review)

Daniel J. Burge
pp. 273-275
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Conversations with Maurice Sendak ed. by Peter C. Kunze (review)

A. Waller Hastings
pp. 275-277
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If You Don't Laugh You'll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers by Claire Schmidt (review)

Winifred Morgan
pp. 277-280
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