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  1. The Editor's Drawers
  2. Lawrence Howe
  3. pp. 1-4
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  1. On Second Thought
  2. Joanne Gilbert, Kathryn B. McKee
  3. pp. 5-7
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  1. American Humor and Matters of Empire: A Proposal and Invitation
  2. Judith Yaross Lee
  3. pp. 8-43
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  1. Beyond Liveness: Experimentation in the Stand-Up Special
  2. David Gillota
  3. pp. 44-61
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  1. "Like a Realtor in Peoria": Patton Oswalt, Twitter, and Heckling as Social Activism
  2. Steven S. Kapica
  3. pp. 62-90
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  1. Laughter's Truths: Hurston, Ellison, and Open-Ended Dialogue
  2. Juniper Ellis
  3. pp. 91-109
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  1. George S. Schuyler's "Shafts and Darts": The Messenger Years, 1923-1924
  2. Lawrence Howe
  3. pp. 110-123
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  1. The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2018
  2. Gretchen Martin
  3. pp. 124-187
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  1. Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor by Tanya Sheehan (review)
  2. Margaret D. Stetz
  3. pp. 188-191
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  1. God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor by Hershey and Linda Friedman (review)
  2. Jennifer Caplan
  3. pp. 191-194
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  1. Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter ed. by John A. Dowell and Cynthia J. Miller (review)
  2. David Gillota
  3. pp. 194-197
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  1. Satire by John T. Gilmore, and: The Cambridge Introduction to Satire by Jonathan Greenberg (review)
  2. James E. Caron
  3. pp. 198-205
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  1. Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism ed. by Magda Romanska and Alan Ackerman (review)
  2. Tracy Wuster
  3. pp. 205-207
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  1. The Comedy Studies Reader ed. by Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz (review)
  2. Steven S. Kapica
  3. pp. 208-212
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  1. Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak ed. by Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott (review)
  2. Nikhil Jayadevan
  3. pp. 212-216
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  1. The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone (review)
  2. Joshua Louis Moss
  3. pp. 216-221
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  1. Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives ed. by Vivienne Westbrook and Shun-liang Chao (review)
  2. Emma Sullivan
  3. pp. 221-224
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  1. Film, Comedy, and Disability: Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability by Alison Wilde (review)
  2. Michael Epp
  3. pp. 224-226
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  1. Kierkegaard and the Legitimacy of the Comic by Will Williams (review)
  2. Michael Dalebout
  3. pp. 226-230
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  1. Gender and Humor: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives ed. by Delia Chiaro and Raffaella Baccolini (review)
  2. Jared N. Champion
  3. pp. 230-233
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  1. Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record by Jane Chapman, et al. (review)
  2. Winifred Morgan
  3. pp. 233-235
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  1. The Language of Humor: An Introduction by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don L. F. Nilsen (review)
  2. Joseph Dorinson
  3. pp. 236-239
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  1. Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics by Michelle Ann Abate (review)
  2. Zsófia Anna Tóth
  3. pp. 239-242
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