Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.10.1.0153
James E. Caron
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0298
Matthew R. Meier
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0266
Wieland Schwanebeck
ABSTRACT:This article links the concept of the community of laughter to cringe comedy, which emphasizes embarrassment, awkwardness, and social isolation over the affirmative bonds of other, less pain-inducing branches of comedy. It uses the film Bridesmaids (2011) to investigate how cringe comedy refrains from celebrating communality and solidarity, exposing the fragility of female bonds in the context of class warfare. The film’s eloquent and cringeworthy set pieces isolate the main character from her potential “community of laughter” and set her on a trajectory that is often closer to the arc of tragedy, where characters experience a fall. Crucially, cringe comedy’s inherent necessity to soften the blow, signaled by the climactic reconciliation in Bridesmaids, is not to be confused for a cop-out on behalf of the filmmakers. It is part of cringe comedy’s tendency to set its main characters on a path towards catharsis and spiritual betterment.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0295
I. Seethaler
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0307
Darren J. Valenta
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0211
Sarah Shermyen
ABSTRACT:High modernist poetry, particularly Gertrude Stein’s 1923 poem “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso,” is often considered impenetrable and distinct from Stein’s more clearly humorous prose work. However, the poem invites us to laugh at the chaos of our world through the chaos and instability of language. This article explores the poem’s humor and the possibilities for pleasure it offers through the rhythm of repetition. Stein’s playfulness points to an oft-overlooked aspect of high modernism: its appeal to our most visceral selves.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0247
Michael Louis Moser
ABSTRACT:Late-night talk shows, which rely on live, in-studio audiences for their tapings, were forced during the pandemic to reformulate how they produced their programs, first recording episodes from their hosts’ homes and then in audience-less studios. This article shows how network late-night talk shows used intimacy, in-jokes, and the feeling of spontaneity to connect with their at-home audiences and encourage their participation, despite their being locked out of the studios.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0227
Mark Hama
ABSTRACT:This article examines how Luís Valdez uses prosocial racial humor in his collection of short plays to challenge the anti-Mexican racism directed against the strikers during the 1965–1970 Delano, California, grape strike as well as to address many of the other social issues faced by the Chicano community during this period. Drawing on social psychology research on the dynamics of racial group identification and focusing on the acto entitled Los Vendidos, the article analyzes how Valdez and his Teatro Campesino created the set of conditions that allowed audience members to confront and overcome the negative effects of the racial stereotyping and ethnic slurs they were experiencing on the picket lines and elsewhere and in the process to raise their Chicano cultural and political consciousness.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0203
David Gillota
Dear readers,I am pleased to present issue 9.2 of Studies in American Humor. Once again, we have an issue that represents the breadth of work being done in American humor studies, with essays focusing on poetry, drama, late-night television, and film comedy. The work in this issue also demonstrates that scholarship on American humor is not only being created by scholars working in the United States, as we have two pieces from scholars out of Europe.First up is Sarah Shermyen’s “Reading Gertrude Stein for Pleasure: Finding the ‘Mere Humor’ in ‘High Modernism.’” Shermyen offers an analysis of Stein’s seemingly impenetrable poem “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso.” However, rather than offering a traditional literary analysis, Shermyen focuses on the poem’s playfulness and teases out the ways in which its use of sound and repetition may generate laughter for readers. Next, Mark Hama explores the sophisticated uses of ethnic humor in the work of playwright Luís Valdez. Hama’s essay “Challenging Stereotypes: Prosocial Racial Humor in Luís Valdez’s Actos” provides a useful historical context for Valdez’s work and ultimately focuses on the ways in which his one-act play Los Vendidos uses humor to challenge predominant stereotypes of Mexican Americans.After that, Michael Louis Moser explores the multiple strategies of late-night television hosts during the pandemic in his piece “Intimacy, In-Jokes, and the Feeling of Spontaneity on Late-Night Talk Shows: How Hosts and Audiences Laughed Together in Pandemic Times.” This excellent essay adds to the growing body of work about how COVID may have changed the ways in which we consume, produce, and understand humor. Finally, Wieland Schwanebeck explores the intersections of community building and awkward humor in his essay “When the Community of Laughter Needed the Bathroom: Bridesmaids and the Limits of Cringe Comedy.” This piece offers a compelling analysis of the raunch-com film Bridesmaids and of the social impact of cringe comedy in general. The issue is rounded out by a full slate of book reviews and our usual “On Second Thought” feature. Lastly, please keep your eye out for our forthcoming special issue on feminist humor, due out one year from now.
亲爱的读者们，我很高兴向大家介绍《美国幽默研究》第9.2期。再一次，我们有一个问题代表了美国幽默研究的广度，论文集中在诗歌、戏剧、深夜电视和电影喜剧上。本期的研究也表明，关于美国幽默的学术研究不仅仅是由在美国工作的学者创造的，就像我们有两篇来自欧洲学者的文章一样。首先是Sarah Shermyen的《阅读格特鲁德·斯坦的乐趣:在“高级现代主义”中寻找“纯粹的幽默”》。’”谢尔曼对斯坦那首看似难以理解的诗《如果我告诉他:毕加索的完整肖像》(If I Told Him: A complete Portrait of Picasso)进行了分析。然而，Shermyen并没有提供传统的文学分析，而是专注于这首诗的趣味性，并梳理出它使用声音和重复的方式可能会给读者带来笑声。接下来，马克·哈马探讨了剧作家Luís瓦尔迪兹作品中对民族幽默的复杂运用。哈马的文章“挑战刻板印象:Luís瓦尔迪兹的行为中的亲社会种族幽默”为瓦尔迪兹的作品提供了有用的历史背景，并最终关注他的独幕剧Los Vendidos使用幽默挑战墨西哥裔美国人的主要刻板印象的方式。在那之后，Michael Louis Moser在他的文章《深夜谈话节目中的亲密、笑话和自发性:主持人和观众如何在流行病时期一起笑》中探讨了流行病期间深夜电视主持人的多种策略。这篇优秀的文章为越来越多的关于COVID如何改变我们消费、生产和理解幽默的方式的研究增添了新的内容。最后，Wieland Schwanebeck在他的文章《当笑声社区需要浴室:伴娘和尴尬喜剧的极限》中探讨了社区建设和尴尬幽默的交叉点。这篇文章提供了一个令人信服的分析色情电影伴娘和畏缩喜剧的社会影响一般。这期杂志由一系列书评和我们惯常的“再三考虑”专题组成。最后，请关注我们一年后即将出版的女权主义幽默特刊。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0287
Carrie Conners
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