In this Issue

Table of Contents

The Editor's Drawers

Lawrence Howe
pp. 1-2
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On Second Thought

Joshua Louis Moss, Linda Morris, Teresa Prados-Torreira, Richard Scully, Kerry Soper, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
pp. 3-12
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Comedy as a Practice of Care: Restorative Laugher and Reciprocal Empathy in the Pandemic

Kirsten Leng
pp. 13-31
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Mothers and Whores: Female Performers and Comedic Controversies

Amber Day
pp. 32-50
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Incongruent Bodies: The Gender Politics of SNL's Hillary Clintons

Marissa Spada
pp. 51-74
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Resistance TV: In Search of Racism's Off Switch

Lisa M. Beringer
pp. 75-94
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George D. Prentice and the Whig Sense of Humor

Daniel J. Burge
pp. 95-112
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The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2020

Gretchen Martin, Jonathan Rossing
pp. 113-176
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Seeing MAD: Essays on MAD Magazine's Humor and Legacy ed. by Judith Yaross Lee and John Bird (review)

Jennifer Caplan
pp. 177-179
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Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern "Truthiness" and Civic Engagement by James E. Caron (review)

Brian P. O'sullivan
pp. 179-183
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Caricature and National Character: The United States at War by Christopher J. Gilbert (review)

Teresa Prados-Torreira
pp. 183-187
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Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence ed. by Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond (review)

Will Schmenner
pp. 187-190
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff (review)

Marianne Kongerslev
pp. 190-193
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Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art ed. by Richard Scully and Andrekos Varnava (review)

Judith Yaross Lee
pp. 193-197
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Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust ed. by David Slucki et al. (review)

Christine Smaller
pp. 198-200
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Who's Laughing Now?: Feminist Tactics in Social Media by Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen (review)

Heidi M. Hanrahan
pp. 201-203
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A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice by Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman (review)

Michael Dalebout
pp. 204-207
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Going "There": Black Visual Satire by Richard J. Powell (review)

Owen Cantrell
pp. 207-210
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Tragedy plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy by Philip Scepanski (review)

Jay Friesen
pp. 210-213
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The Comics of R. Crumb ed. by Daniel Worden, and: R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self by David Stephen Calonne (review)

Kerry David Soper
pp. 213-219
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