Studies
In American Humor
New
Series 3, No. 8 (2001)
Judith
Yaross Lee, Guest Editor
Teodora
Carabas, Guest Editorial Assistant
Judith Yaross Lee
Al
Capp’s South: Appalachian Humor in Li’l
Abner
4
M. Thomas Inge
Getting
Ethnically Humorous: Dolores Prida’s Beautiful
Señoritas
21
María Luisa Ochoa
Fernández
“We hope you like us,
Jack”: The Kennedy-Era Satire of Victor Navasky’s
36
Monocle and Outsider’s
Newsletter
Stephen Kercher
Treacherous
Laughter: The Poetry Slam, Slam Poetry,
49
and the Politics of Resistance
Tyler Hoffman
The
Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2000
65
Judith Yaross Lee
Stand-up
Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America, by John
Limon.
80
Reviewed by Gary
Wiener
The
Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary, ed. by David E.
Schultz
81
and S. T. Joshi. Reviewed by John Bird
Woody,
from Antz to Zelig: A Reference Guide
to Woody Allen’s Creative
83
Work, 1964-1998,
by Richard A. Schwartz. Reviewed by
William F. Naufftus
Literary Wit,
by Bruce Michelson. Reviewed by Ann
Ryan
85
Contributors
88
Announcements
89