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Reading Gertrude Stein for Pleasure: Finding the “Mere Humor” in “High Modernism”

Sarah Shermyen
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (2): 211–226.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0211
Published: 05 September 2023
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Challenging Stereotypes: Prosocial Racial Humor in Luís Valdez’s Actos

Mark Hama
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (2): 227–246.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0227
Published: 05 September 2023
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Intimacy, In-Jokes, and the Feeling of Spontaneity on Late-Night Talk Shows: How Hosts and Audiences Laughed Together in Pandemic Times

Michael Louis Moser
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (2): 247–265.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0247
Published: 05 September 2023
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When the Community of Laughter Needed the Bathroom: Bridesmaids and the Limits of Cringe Comedy

Wieland Schwanebeck
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (2): 266–286.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0266
Published: 05 September 2023
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“Making Such Spaces . . . Where None Previously Existed”: Interstitial Wit in Fran Ross’s Oreo

Benjamin Schwartz
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (1): 13–30.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0013
Published: 09 March 2023
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“A Punch Back, . . . a Contagious Guffaw”: Feminist Humor in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the Professionalization of the Rebellious Laugh

Shuhita Bhattacharjee
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (1): 31–50.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0031
Published: 09 March 2023
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Playing with the (Gendered) Rules of Stand-Up: Alternative Aesthetics of Power in Kristen Schaal: Live at The Fillmore

Luise Charlotte Noé
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (1): 51–70.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0051
Published: 09 March 2023
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Comedy as a Practice of Care: Restorative Laughter and Reciprocal Empathy in the Pandemic

Kirsten Leng
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2022) 8 (1): 13–31.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0013
Published: 01 April 2022
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Mothers and Whores: Female Performers and Comedic Controversies

Amber Day
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2022) 8 (1): 32–50.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0032
Published: 01 April 2022
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Incongruent Bodies: The Gender Politics of SNL ’s Hillary Clintons

Marissa Spada
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2022) 8 (1): 51–74.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0051
Published: 01 April 2022
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Resistance TV: In Search of Racism’s Off Switch

Lisa M. Beringer
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2022) 8 (1): 75–94.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0075
Published: 01 April 2022
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Viral Jokes and Fugitive Humor in the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reprinting

Todd Thompson
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2021) 7 (1): 61–85.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.1.0061
Published: 01 April 2021
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Cutting to the Punch: Graphic Stunt Comedy and the Emergence of Crisis Slapstick

Joshua Louis Moss
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2021) 7 (1): 11–38.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.1.0011
Published: 01 April 2021
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The Pleasure of the Parlor: Mocking the “Home Guard” in Civil War Visual Culture

Vanessa Meikle Schulman
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2021) 7 (1): 105–127.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.1.0105
Published: 01 April 2021
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“Don't go all earnest on us”: Metamodern Satire in George Saunders's “Brad Carrigan, American”

Sam Chesters
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2021) 7 (1): 39–60.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.1.0039
Published: 01 April 2021
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Comedy Gold: Humor on the Alaska-Yukon Border, 1886-1896

Christopher Petrakos
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2021) 7 (1): 86–104.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.1.0086
Published: 01 April 2021
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American Humor and Matters of Empire: A Proposal and Invitation

Judith Yaross Lee
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2020) 6 (1): 8–43.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.1.0008
Published: 01 April 2020
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Laughter's Truths: Hurston, Ellison, and Open-Ended Dialogue

Juniper Ellis
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2020) 6 (1): 91–109.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.1.0091
Published: 01 April 2020
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“Like a Realtor in Peoria”: Patton Oswalt, Twitter, and Heckling as Social Activism

Steven S. Kapica
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2020) 6 (1): 62–90.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.1.0062
Published: 01 April 2020
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Beyond Liveness: Experimentation in the Stand-Up Special

David Gillota
Journal: Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Humor (2020) 6 (1): 44–61.
https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.1.0044
Published: 01 April 2020
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