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- Studies in American Humor
- Penn State University Press
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- Series 4, Volume 4, Number 1, 2016
- Contributors’ Notes
- Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” by William V. Spanos (review)
- The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature by Ben Tarnoff (review)
- Mark Twain: The Gift of Humor by Harold H. Kolb Jr. (review)
- The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian by Rick DesRochers (review)
- Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition by Andrew Davis (review)
- Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry by Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jonathan Ball, and: Mock Modernism: An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910–1935 ed. by Leonard Diepeveen (review)
- Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from “I Love Lucy” to “Community” by Saul Austerlitz (review)
- Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In by Ken Feil (review)
- “Saturday Night Live,” Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture: From Chevy Chase to Tina Fey by Jim Whalley (review)
- Live from New York: The Complete Uncensored History of “Saturday Night Live” as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests (2nd ed.) by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales (review)
- Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him by David Henry and Joe Henry (review)
- Becoming Richard Pryor by Scott Saul, and: Pryor Lives! How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor, or Kiss My Rich, Happy, Black … Ass! A Memoir by Cecil Brown (review)
- The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2014
- Performed Authenticity: Narrating the Self in the Comic Monologues of David Sedaris, John Leguizamo, and Spalding Gray
- A Sense of Humor for Civic Life: Toward a Strong Defense of Humor
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