{"title":"George D. Prentice and the Whig Sense of Humor","authors":"D. Burge","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0095","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Scholars have recently begun reexamining the Whig Party, paying particular attention to how the party gained adherents and challenged Andrew Jackson and his acolytes. Yet few scholars have focused attention on the Whig sense of humor. Typically portrayed as more uptight than their rambunctious Democratic counterparts, Whigs were seemingly unable to find humor in a burgeoning democratic society. This article challenges that traditional portrait by examining George D. Prentice, the long-serving editor of the Louisville Journal. Although largely forgotten as a humorist, Prentice gained a national reputation for his \"hits\" that appeared daily in the pages of the Louisville Journal from 1830 to 1868. By pillorying the opposition party, Prentice found a way to joke about corruption, adultery, drunkenness, and even death. In doing so, Prentice proved that Whigs did have a sense of humor, although it largely consisted of mocking Democrats for their eccentricities and supposed moral failings.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"11 1","pages":"112 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80480302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Comics of R. Crumb and R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self","authors":"K. Soper","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"225 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86000723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"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)","authors":"Michael Dalebout","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"028 1","pages":"204 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91152211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Going There: Black Visual Satire","authors":"Owen Cantrell","doi":"10.37862/aaeportal.00221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75941797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing MAD: Essays on MAD Magazine’s Humor and Legacy","authors":"J. Caplan","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85944546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mothers and Whores","authors":"Amber Day","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines two public controversies that arose in quick succession in 2018 around the routines of two female comics: Michelle Wolf’s monologue at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and Samantha Bee’s segment on the policy of separating children from their immigrant parents at the border, which contained a crude insult about Ivanka Trump. Both incidents attracted attention and commentary far beyond the reaches of the performers’ usual audiences. In the wider conversation that myriad voices participated in, a much broader discursive struggle took place over ideals and norms. I argue that it was fundamentally a battle over conceptions of femininity and motherhood and, ultimately, over how to be a respectable woman in the public sphere. Not incidentally, defense of the jokes’ victims revolved around their status as “wives and mothers,” while disavowals of the joke tellers focused on the vulgarity of their use of profanity and sexual innuendo. Overall, these incidents ultimately drive home the way female performers have become hot spots in the “culture wars,” themselves sites of battle over ideals of gender, power, and public space.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74633160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2020","authors":"G. Martin, J. Rossing","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0113","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:\"Year's Work in American Humor Studies,\" an annual feature of Studies in American Humor since 1999, reviews humor scholarship and related materials, including humor theory, published during the specified year from many disciplinary perspectives. The review gives special emphasis to studies of humor in American culture, broadly conceived.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"14 1","pages":"113 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74306141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics in Comedy: Essays on Crossing the Line ed. by Steven Benko (review)","authors":"Kenneth L. Brewer","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"17 1","pages":"399 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85600641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Late Night with Trump: Political Humor and the American Presidency by Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter (review)","authors":"P. M. Robinson","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"108 1","pages":"411 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81685773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging","authors":"J. Y. Lee","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82191673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}