Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0187
W. Schmenner
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0051
Marissa Spada
This article explores the political humor behind Saturday Night Live’s presidential impressions and how the stakes of such humor are higher when the candidate is a woman. Drawing on theories of comic incongruity, I argue that SNL’s American presidents have “incongruent bodies”; that is, they challenge long-held assumptions about how power and leadership are to be visualized and embodied but ultimately maintain the patriarchal status quo. In the case of former candidate Hillary Clinton, however, what makes her incongruent with the role of the presidency is the simple fact of her being a woman. I argue that SNL’s Hillary Clinton characters, played by Amy Poehler and Kate McKinnon, foreground the basic contradiction of the woman candidate, offering an embodied critique on the gendering of power and leadership in America.
{"title":"Incongruent Bodies","authors":"Marissa Spada","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the political humor behind Saturday Night Live’s presidential impressions and how the stakes of such humor are higher when the candidate is a woman. Drawing on theories of comic incongruity, I argue that SNL’s American presidents have “incongruent bodies”; that is, they challenge long-held assumptions about how power and leadership are to be visualized and embodied but ultimately maintain the patriarchal status quo. In the case of former candidate Hillary Clinton, however, what makes her incongruent with the role of the presidency is the simple fact of her being a woman. I argue that SNL’s Hillary Clinton characters, played by Amy Poehler and Kate McKinnon, foreground the basic contradiction of the woman candidate, offering an embodied critique on the gendering of power and leadership in America.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87345118","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}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0190
Marianne Kongerslev
{"title":"We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff (review)","authors":"Marianne Kongerslev","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"52 1","pages":"190 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75082524","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}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0193
J. Y. Lee
{"title":"Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art ed. by Richard Scully and Andrekos Varnava (review)","authors":"J. Y. Lee","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"21 1","pages":"193 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86197159","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}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.2.0223
Lawrence W. Howe
{"title":"The Editor’s Drawers","authors":"Lawrence W. Howe","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.2.0223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.2.0223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"31 1","pages":"223 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86495728","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}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0179
B. O'sullivan
{"title":"Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern \"Truthiness\" and Civic Engagement by James E. Caron (review)","authors":"B. O'sullivan","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"13 1","pages":"179 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88739698","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}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0075
Lisa M. Beringer
African American sketch comedy uses satirical humor to decenter common white tropes of Blackness that are reinforced in media depictions through an intellectual and emotional approach that both frees satirists from traditional form and structure and that asks viewers—especially white ones—to question the root cause of their laughter and in turn their embrace of racist systems. Focusing on the harmfulness of racism and its intersection with sexism, this article argues that sketch comedy uses satirical humor to flip the script on commonly held stereotypes of Blackness, resist American racism, and in the end assert a claim for Black humanity in self-defined terms, offering humorous resistance as a modality that may get us closer to finding an “off switch” to racism.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0095
D. Burge
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.
摘要:近年来，学者们开始重新审视辉格党，尤其关注辉格党如何获得追随者并挑战安德鲁·杰克逊及其追随者。然而，很少有学者关注辉格党的幽默感。辉格党通常被描绘成比他们喧闹的民主党同行更保守，似乎无法在一个蓬勃发展的民主社会中找到幽默。本文通过考察长期担任《路易斯维尔日报》(Louisville Journal)主编的乔治·d·普伦蒂斯(George D. Prentice)，挑战了这种传统形象。虽然普伦蒂斯作为一个幽默家已经被人遗忘，但他在1830年至1868年期间每天出现在《路易斯维尔日报》(Louisville Journal)上的“热门段子”却赢得了全国的声誉。通过嘲弄反对党，普伦蒂斯找到了一种拿腐败、通奸、酗酒甚至死亡开玩笑的方式。通过这样做，普伦蒂斯证明了辉格党确实有幽默感，尽管它主要是嘲笑民主党人的怪癖和所谓的道德缺陷。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0213
K. Soper
{"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}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0204
Michael Dalebout
{"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}
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