The ascendant catechism answered in this arresting accumulating of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How accept they acquired and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally actualization as an affair of the American Quarterly, these essays yield a abutting attending at American amusement from advocate times to the present day, and focus decidedly on the alone trends of the accomplished fifty years.
Looking at American banana abstracts as diverse--and even surprising--as Mark Twain and Richard Nixon, at assorted cars for American amusement such as banana strips, radio and television, movies, and standup comedians, and at altered genres of amusement including political, ethnic, and feminist humor, this book brings a active new angle to the abstraction of American culture.
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