The Funniest Pages

Contents: David Swick/Richard Lance Keeble: Journalism - So Often Funnier than Fiction - Nicholas Brownlees: News Mockery in the English Civil War and Interregnum Press - Dean Jobb: «Written with Powers Truly Comick»: Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and the Birth of Social and Political Satire - Ben Stubbs: Travel Writing and Humor: From Dickens and Twain to the Present Day - Mary M. Cronin: Sifting Comic Wheat from Western Chaff: Alex E. Sweet, John Armoy Knox, and the Humor
of the American West - Mark J. Noonan: Howling Mad: Mad Magazine, Allen Ginsberg, and the Culture Wars of the 1950s - David Swick: Comedy in Tragedy: Humor in the Literary Journalism of James Cameron - Hendrik Michael: Words! Wisdom! Gibberish!: Verbal Irony in Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 - Antonio Castillo: The Clinic: Satirizing and Interrogating Power in post-Pinochet Chile - Carolyn Rickett: Deadly Funny: How John Diamond Used Humor to Tackle the Taboo Subjects of Cancer and Dying - James Waller-Davies: «Common sense dancing»: Clive James's Invention of the Television Column as a Comic Genre - Matthew Ricketson: John Clarke and the Power of Satire in Journalism - Rob Steen: A Sporting Chance: Fun and Failure - Both On and Off the Field - Dermot Heaney: Bowling Them Over and Over with Wit: Forms and Functions of Humor in Live Text Cricket Coverage - Sue Joseph: Harmer, Humor and The Hoopla: In the Vanguard of Australian Female Comedy - Asif Hameed: Speaking Truth to Power in 140 Characters or Less: Political Satire, Civic Engagement and Journalism - Blake Lambert: Twitter and the Revitalization of Black Humor in Journalism - Kevin M. Lerner: How Spy, the Iconic Satirical Magazine of the 1980s, Invented Contemporary Snark, and How Internet Journalism Has Misappropriated It - Richard Lance Keeble and David Swick: Putting Fun into the Curriculum.