Index
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart), 211
Abort the Republicans, 152
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie), 19
Abstract Expressionism, 29
Accusatoriness, in cartoons,
Action painting, 29
Adams, Atomic Azgnut, 198
Adams, Hunter Doherty,
Adams, Lars Zig Edquist, 198
Adams, Nick, 32
Adams, Patch, 194,
Adams, Reginald, 253
Adamson, Joe, 35
The Addams Family (TV show), 123
Adophasis, 188
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 181
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Collodi), 167
Advertising Rhetoric of Madison Avenue (AROMA), 322
African-American humor,
sitcoms and, 123
Age differences in humor,
Agee, James, 263
Agnew, Spiro, 279
Aguilla, Daniel, 32
Airplane (film), 241
Akihito, Emperor of Japan, 280
Alazons, 180
Albert, Eddie, 124
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, 200
Alexie, Sherman, 19
Aliens, in sitcoms, 125
All Joking Aside: American Humor and its Discontents (Krefting), 195
Allegories, 185
Allen, Amoy, 93
Allen, Gracie, 122
Allusions, 9, 83, 167
geographical, 188
humorous, to children's literature,
in children's literature,
mondegreens as, 11
as tropes, 185
Amelia Bedelia books (Parish), 76
Amelioration, eponyms and, 220
American Beauty (film), 244
American Indian Comedy slam, 17
American Indians, 23
clowns of, 335
conflict with settlers, 272
humor of, , 104
reservations for, 273
sports team names and,
tribes of, 17
Amos 'n' Andy (TV show), 123
Amsterdam, Morey, 207
Analyze This (film), 241
Anatomy of Criticism (Frye), 177
Anaya, Rudolfo, 23
Anderson, Leroy, 214
Angle, Sharron, 33
Animal House (film), 239
Animation, 171
Aniston, Jennifer, 148
Annie Get Your Gun (musical), 206
Anthony, Bert, 268
Anthropology,
Antithesis, 167
Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U. S. Presidential Campaign (Cummins), 291
Apte, Mahadev L., 14
Aptronyms, 310
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 259
The Arab News, 36
Araprosdokians, 192
Arbuckle, Fatty, 241
Arcadia University, 270
Archaisms, 186
Architecture, humorous, 30
Architecture, maximalism in, 29
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (Blume), 76
Aristophanes, 179
The Arizona Republic, 148
Arizona Diamondbacks, 269
Arizona State Sun Devils football team,
Arthur (film), 241
Arthur, Bea, 125
Artistic originality, 28,
Assembly line, 55
Astaire, Fred, 242
Astley, Philip, 337
At Wit's End (Bombeck), 143
Attention-grabbing, in cartoons,
Auguste clowns, 337
Aunt Erma's Cope Book (Bombeck), 143
Australia, Irish in, 20
Avon cosmetics company, 102
Baby and Child Care (Spock), 92
Baby Driver (film), 244
Baker, Russell, 92
Baldwin, Alec, 289
Ball, LaVar, 289
Balzac, Honoré de, 157
The Barber of Seville (Rossini), 212
Barbs,
Barefoot Boy with Cheek (Shulman), 109
Barrett, Judi, 83
Barrett, Ron, 83
Barrick, Mac E., 129
Barth, Belle, 24
The Basic Humor Process: A Cognitive-Shift Theory and the Case against Incongruity (Latta), 252
Beany and Cecil cartoons, 77
Beatlemania (musical), 205
Beattie, J., 252
Beaver Female Seminary, 270
Beckett, Samuel, 20
Beetlejuice (film), 243
The Beggar's Opera (musical), 206
Behaviorist hypothesis of language acquisition, 250
Behaviors,
“Bells” (Poe), 328
Benny, Jack, 207
Benson, Steve, 283
Bergen, Edgar, 20
Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year (Brooks, ed.), 229
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (musical), 206
Better Foot Forward: The History of American Musical Theatre (Mordden), 206
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (video), 67
Beverly Hillbillies (TV show), 124
Bevo (mascot), 269
Beyl, Charles, 229
Bidpai, 248
Big Bad Wolf, 78
The Big Lebowski (film), 244
The Big Apple, 98
Bildungsroman novels, 181
Biles, Simone, 218
Biloxi Blues (film), 240
Biloxi Blues (Simon), 99
Biomedical model of health psychology, 299
Biopsychosocial model of health psychology, 299
Bird in Flight (Brâncus¸şi), 29
Bish, Randy, 32
Biting satire, 164
Blackadder Goes Forth (TV show), 236
“Blackface comedy”, 123
Blair, Tony, 234
Blazing Saddles (film), 238
Bless Me Ultima (Anaya), 23
Blitt, Barry, 33
Blount, Roy, 33
Blume, Judy, 76
Blumenfeld, Warren S., 176
Body language, unintentional, 265
Boehner, John, 80
Bogue, Merwyn, 208
Bombeck, Bill, 142
Bombeck, Erma,
Bond, Felicia, 83
Book of Mormon (musical), 216
Borat (film), 240
Bottomley, Virginia, 234
Boyd, Brian, 252
B-Phlat, 197
Bradbury, Ray, 179
The Brady Bunch (TV show), 123
Brâncus¸şi, Constantin, 29
Brant, William, 304
Braque, Georges, 28
Brave New World (Huxley), 179
Breathed, Berkeley, 35
Brice, Fanny, 24
Bridesmaids (film), 94
Bridges, Jeff, 244
Brigham Young University
computer animation program of, 39
Brinsley, Richard, 172
Broadway musical theater,
Brontë, Emily, 179
The Bronx Bird Watcher (song), 236
Brooks, Albert, 26
Brooks, Charles, 229
Brooks, Mel, 238
Broom Hilda (comic strip), 34
Brousfield, B., 304
Brown, Alan, 303
Brown, Jerry, 33
Bruce, Lenny, 196
Bruegel, Peter, 36
Bryant, Aidy, 290
Buck, Ken, 33
Buckley, William F., Jr., 172
Buddhism, Tibetan, laughter and openmindedness stressed by, 310
Budweiser beer, 101
Bugs Bunny
Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare (Adamson), 35
Bull Durham (film), 241
Bullets over Broadway (film), 241
Bunkerisms, 330
Bunyan, John, 310
Bunyan, Paul, 127
Burgess, Anthony, 179
Burgess, Gelett, 328
Burlesque shows, 337
Burnett, Carol, 209
Bush, Barbara, 280
Bush, George H. W., 280
Buster Brown Shoes, 35
Butler, Ron, 234
Byrne, Jason, 20
Cabaret (musical), 205
Cacography, 330
Caconyms, 233
Caddyshack (film), 241
Caesar, Sid, 207
Callahan, John, 35
Callus, Charlie, 207
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book (Watterson), 35
Can Can, 213
Candid Camera (TV show), 338
Candide (Voltaire), 181
Canon in D (Pachelbel), 210
Canova, Judy, 207
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 180
Captain Kangaroo (TV show), 77
Captain Marvel, 34
Captain Underpants books (Pilkey), 80
Car names, 227
Card, Orson Scott, 181
Caricatures, 30
Carle, Eric, 82
Carlin, George, 196
Carnahan, Robin, 33
Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saëns), 213
Carson, Ben, 257
Cartoons,
about disabilities, 35
about Anthony Weiner, 229
Beany and Cecil, 77
about death, 310
about Harry Potter, 190
in newspapers, 138
religious,
about weddings, 310
"Willie and Joe", 128
Carvey, Dana, 35
Catch 22 (Heller), 180
Cathedral architecture, 29
Cathy (comic strip), 34
Cats (musical), 205
Catskill Mountains, comedy shows in, 24
Caudill, Abbie, 46
Ceci n'est pas une pipe (Magritte), 38
Celebrity roasts, 333
Cézanne, Paul, 28
Chagall, Marc, 37
Champagne, 101
Chapman, Anthony, 264
Chappelle, Dave, 263
Character clowns, 338
Charged humor, 195
Charged jokes, 196
Chariots of Fire (film), 236
Charney, Leo, 125
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 180
Chauvinist, as eponym, 221
Cheers (TV show), 124
Chiasmus, 168
Chicano/a humor,
Chicken Little, 78
Children of a Lesser God (film), 239
Children, accidental humor from, 295,
Children's literature
allusion in,
cartoons alluding to, 190
exaggeration in, 76
excitation-transfer theory and, 77
humorous allusions to,
Children's TV,
Christian, Michael, 306
Christie, Agatha, 178
Church humor, 315
Cicero, 259
Circumlocution, 186
Circus clowns, 337
Cisneros, Sandra, 24
Citizen Kane (film), 240
Clark, Ann Nolan, 119
Clark, Bud, 279
Classical music, humor in,
Clay, Henry, 172
Cleese, John, 310
Clichés, 320
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), 179
A Clockwork Orange (film), 243
Clothes, gender-neutral, 91
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett and Barrett), 83
Clowns,
Auguste, 337
changing roles of, 341
circus, 337
early,
harlequin, 337
of Indian tribes, 335
Pierrot, 337
of Renaissance Europe, 335
Russian, 338
scary,
Coffee-table comic books, 35
Cognitive development, humor appreciation and, 294
College of Alameda mascot, 272
collegehumor.com, 67
Colonies of England, 23
Columbus Breaking an Egg (Hogarth), 36
Comedie Française, 206
Comedy, 180
Comedy clubs, 196
Comedy in Music (Broadway show), 215
Comedy of humors, 180
Comedy of manners, 181
Comedy slam, 18
Comedy Store, 18
Comic operas, 213
Comics Code Authority, 34
Comics, mainstream collections of, 35
Coming-of-age novels, 181
Commercial names,
Commercialism, in art, 39
“Computer Model of ‘A Sense of Humour'” (Suslov), 252
Computer science,
Confucius, 321
Congreve, William, 20
Conservation, humor appreciation development and, 294
Contemporary Stylistics (Brousfield), 304
Continental Airlines, 92
Conversational implicatures,
Conway, Tim, 336
Cooperative humor, 65
Cooperative principle,
Corden, James, 289
The Cosby Show (TV show), 123
Cotler, Seth, 80
Cowboys, 128
Creation stories, 248
Creationism, debate about, 157
Cresci, D., 172
Critique of Sarcastic Reason (Brant), 304
Crockett, Davy, 127
Cronkite, Walter, 140
Crumb, Robert, 34
Culture. See also specific cultural groups
cultural differences in humor and,
dead metaphors and, 103
public art and, 102
Cummins, Joseph, 291
Curry, Steph, 289
D. C. Comics, 34
Dada Movement, 29
Daddy Warbucks theory of presidential qualifications, 168
Dalai Lama, 310
Dana, Bill, 13
Dangerfield, Rodney, 297
Daniels, Stormy, 289
Danse Macabre (Saint-Saëns), 212
Dark comedy, in film,
Dark humor, 179
Daschle, Tom, 81
Daumier, Honoré, 28
David Letterman Show (TV show), 272
Davies, Christie, 14
Davis, Michael, 167
Day of the Dead, 340
Dayton Journal Herald, 142
DC Comics, 34
De Kooning, Willem, 29
De Paola, Tomie, 83
Dead-celebrity industry, 154
Death of a Salesman (Miller), 179
Degas, Edgar, 28
Del Toro, Benicio, 244
Delamere, Neil, 20
Delta State University mascot, 272
“Les Demoiselles d'Avignon” (Picasso), 37
Denims, 97
Dennet, Daniel, 253
Depp, Johnny, 244
“Der Fuehrer's Face”, 208
Descartes, René, 259
Desegregation, 16
Deseret, 106
Developmental stages of ethnic humor, 14
DeVito, Danny, 240
Devos, Betsy, 289
Dick Van Dyke Show (TV show), 124
Dickinson, Peter, 90
Dickson, Paul, 130
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Fowler), 304
Die Fledermaus (Strauss), 212
Diff'rent Strokes (TV show), 123
The Dilbert Principle (Adams), 35
Dilbert (cartoon), 48
Disney, Walt, 248
“Dit, Dat, Dittem, Dattem, Wattem, Chew”, 208
Diversity training, integrating humor training into, 46
Dixie Chicks singing group, 85
Doggerel, intentional, 328
Doggerel poetry, 328
Dole, Bob, 341
A Doll's House (Ibsen), 89
Domingo, Placido, 209
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Why Kids Love the Books They Do (Lurie), 76
Dona Ocell (Miró), 38
Dotted Swiss cloth, 100
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (film), 243
Draco, 159
Dracula (Stoker), 179
Dragonball Z Abridged (video series), 67
Drake, Milton, 172
Drama, in sitcoms,
“Drunk History” (video), 67
Du Maurier, Daphne, 325
Duchenne display, 264
Duck Soup (film), 334
Duncan, Lois, 66
Dunce, as eponym, 221
Dundes, Alan, 130
Durocher, Leo, 170
Dust in our Desks (Nilsen), 119
Dvorřˇák, Antonin, 213
Eaglebear, Vaughn, 18
Eagles, symbolism of, 271
Easter Bunny, 338
Eastman, Peter, Jr., 224
Ebert, Roger, 199
Ecumenism,
Edison's medicine, 174
Edquist, Linda, 198
Education for All Handicapped Children Act, 129
Einstein, Albert, 154
Einstein, Harry, 26
Eirons, 180
Eiseman, James, 286
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 279
Eisterhold, Jodi, 263
Ellison, Ralph, 181
Emma (Austen), 181
Ender's Game (Card), 181
“Endlessly Rising Canon” (Bach), 211
Enigma, 320
Ernst, Max, 28
Errors, rhetorical devices vs.,
Escher, M. C., 38
Esquivel, Laura, 23
ET: The Extraterrestrial (film), 295
Ethics, in journalism, 136
Ethnic Humor around the World: A Comparative Analysis (Davies), 14
Ethnic jokes, 132
Ethnic studies,
Ethos, 321
Euphonyms, 233
“Europe's Lighter Side” (Buchwald), 145
Everybody Loves Raymond (TV show), 126
Exaggeration, in children's literature, 76
Excerpts from Court Reporters – Funny Biz, 152
Excitation-Transfer Theory, 77
Exonyms, 100
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 179
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 241
Fairooz, Desiree, 150
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (Poe), 179
Fallon, Jimmy, 289
Fallwell, Jerry, 156
Families, Jewish humor and, 26
Family Guy (TV show), 126
Family stories, as sitcoms, 123
The Family Circus (comic strip), 34
Family – The Ties That Bind … and Gag! (Bombeck), 143
Farewell Symphony (Haydn), 212
Farley, Chris, 20
Farrell, Will, 20
Faulty grammar, 330
Faust (Goethe), 181
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), 244
Felible, Roma, 76
Feminism,
jokes against, 25
Ferber, Edna, 85
Ferdinand (Lawson and Leaf), 79
Ferraro, Geraldine, 281
Fey, Tina, 148
Fiddler (Chagall), 37
Fielding, Henry, 181
Fields, W. C., 154
Film,
dark comedy in,
MacGuffins in,
parody in,
quest stories in, 240
screwball comedies, 241
silent movies, 241
tragicomedy in, 242
wish fulfillment in, 239
Finding Nemo (film), 240
Fine, Gary Alan, 263
Finnegan's Wake (Joyce), 104
First Draft News, 138
Fisher, Art, 225
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 225
Fitzsimmons, David, 73
Flint, Larry, 156
The Flintstones (TV show), 124
Flynn, Gillian, 325
FOAF tales,
Folk humor,
Folk tales, 78
Ford, Henry, 55
Four Past Midnight (King), 179
“The Four Seasons” (Vivaldi), 177
Fowler, Henry Watson, 304
Foxtrot, as eponym, 222
Foxx, Redd, 196
Frankenstein (Shelley), 179
Franklin, Joe, 16
Frasier (TV show), 125
Freud, Sigmund, 299
Freudian slips, 299
Friends, making through sharing of humor, 193
Friends (TV show), 125
Frog Prince, 78
Frontier humor, 127
Fry, William, 194
Frye, Philip, 59
Funny Girl (musical), 205
Funny papers, 141
funnyordie.com, 67
Futurama (TV show), 126
Gable, Clark, 154
Gabor, Eva, 124
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 148
Gabrovo, Bulgaria, 104
Gacy, John Wayne, 345
Gaelic humor,
The Game of Humor (Gruner), 333
Gates, Henry Lewis, 347
Gauguin, Paul, 28
Geithner, Tim, 81
Gender stereotyping, 90
Gender studies, ,
differences in men's and women's humor and,
feminism and,
masculine vs. feminine terms and, 87
names and,
Gender-neutral clothes, 91
General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH), 253
Generalization, eponyms and, 220
Geography,
humorous place names and,
George Burns and Gracie Allen (TV show), 167
German humor, 104
Gerontology,
Gerry, M. B., 128
Gershwin, Ira, 234
Get Thee to a Punnery (Lederer), 171
Getty, Estelle, 125
Gibson, William, 129
Gilliam, Terry, 244
Gingrich, Newt, 236
The Girl on the Train (Hawkins), 325
The Giver (Lowry), 165
The Glass Castle (film), 245
Globalism
cultural differences in humor and,
place names and,
Go (mascot), 268
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Hofstadter), 211
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 181
Golconda (Magritte), 38
The Goldbergs (radio program), 25
The Goldbergs (TV show), 122
“Golden Age of American Humor”, 121
Golden Girls (TV show), 125
Golding, William, 179
Goldwin, Samuel, 330
Gone Girl (Flynn), 325
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 181
Gonzales, Alberto, 81
Goodman, John, 244
Googlegangers, 218
Gophers, as team mascots, 271
Gordon, James, 76
Gordon, Jeff, 169
Gothic humor, 179
Goulden, Joseph, 130
Goya, Francisco, 28
Grable, Betty, 170
Gran, Jeanette, 301
Graphic novels, 36
The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (Bombeck), 143
Grawe, Paul, 237
Grease (musical), 205
The Great Dictator (film), 278
Great Expectations (Dickens), 181
Green Box Shop, 160
Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss), 82
Gregory, James R., 102
Greig, Mel, 306
Grice, H. P., 323
Griffin, Kathy, 20
Griffith, Andy, 123
Grimaldi, Joseph, 337
Grimwood, Keith, 224
Groening, Matt, 302
Grofé, Ferde, 214
Grossa, Lou, 170
Gruner, Charles, 333
Guernica (Picasso), 37
Guys and Dolls (musical), 206
HMS Pinafore (opera), 235
Haas, Karl, 206
Haggart, Bill, 76
Haiman, John, 304
Hair (musical), 205
Hall, Rich, 20
Hamilton (musical), 234
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 178
Hancock, Holly, 315
A Handbook to Literature: Twelfth Edition, 181
Hans and Franz, 35
Hantavirus diseases, 98
Happiness Is a Warm Puppy (Schulz), 35
Happy Days (TV show), 123
“Hardly Working” video series, 67
Harmon, Larry, 341
Harmon, William, 181
Harold and Maude (film), 243
Harrelson, Woody, 245
Harrison, Philip L., 286
Hart, Lorenz, 234
Harvard beets, 97
Harvey (film), 239
Havel, Vaclav, 101
Hawkins, Paula, 325
Hawn, Goldie, 207
Hazlitt, William, 259
Health psychology,
Hearst, William Randolph, 140
Hefferman, Virginia, 148
Helen Keller jokes, 129
Heller, Joseph, 180
Hello Dolly (musical), 206
Hellzapoppin' (musical), 205
Herman, Pee-Wee, 240
Higgins, Anne, 90
High Anxiety (film), 239
Hill, Charlie,
Hilton, James, 97
Hilton, Paris, 280
Hinckley, John, 280
Hispanic humor,
History,
folk humor as,
History of the World, Part I (film), 239
Hitchcock, Alfred, 240
Hitler, Adolf, 73
Hobbes, Thomas, 252
Hoffman, Al, 172
Hofstadter, Douglas, 211
Hogan's Alley (comic strip), 139
Hogarth, William, 36
Holder, Eric, 289
The Holy Grail (film), 240
Home Improvement (TV show), 124
Home Is on Top of a Dog House (Schulz), 35
Homer, 321
Horace, 179
Hostility,
in cartoons,
Hot l Baltimore (Wilson), 99
House of Humour and Satire, 104
The House on Mango Street (Cisneros), 24
“How It Should Have Ended” (video series), 67
“How to Get Interviewed by Dick Cavett—in Several Tricky Lessons” (Malko), 92
The Howdy Doody Show (TV show), 77
Howe, Irving, 93
Huckabee, Mike, 313
The Human Condition (Magritte), 38
Humane Humor Rule,
Humor
appreciation of, development of,
international,
physical effects of, ,
purposefully created, 8
universal theory of,
“Humor across the Disciplines”, 69
Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach (Apte), 14
Humor and Society: Explorations in the Sociology of Humor (Koller), 86
Humor in the Classroom (Stopsky), 75
Humor studies, field of, 1
Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ),
Humorous behaviors, 298
Humpty Dumpty, 78
hungry i, 196
Hurley, Matthew, 253
Hustler Magazine, Inc. vs. Falwell,
Hutcheson, Frances, 252
Huxley, Aldous, 179
I and the Village (Chagall), 37
I Dream of Jeannie (TV show), 124
I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression (Bombeck), 143
I Love Lucy (TV show), 122
I Need All the Friends I Can Get (Schulz), 35
Ibsen, Henrik, 89
Idlet, Ezra, 225
If I Lean In,Will Men Just Look Down My Blouse? (Barreca), 89
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? (Bombeck), 143
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff and Bond), 83
The Iliad (Homer), 321
Immune system, 299
Impeachment, of Mecham,
Impressionism, 39
“In Defense of the ‘Chick Flick'” (Steinem), 88
In Medias Res, 330
In the Shadow of No Towers, 36
Indian Schools, 273
“Inka Dinka Do” (song), 209
Inkhorn terms, 199
Innatist hypothesis of language acquisition, 250
Innuendo, 187
Insecurity, humor as self-defense against,
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind (Hurley, Dennet, and Adams), 253
Intentional ambiguity, 164
Intercourse, Pennsylvania, 96
International humor,
International perspective, on marketing,
Internet videos,
The Invisible Man (Ellison), 181
Iolanthe (opera), 235
Irish immigrants,
jokes about, 21
Irish rogues, 104
Ironic humor, 179
Irving, John, 180
Isle of Lesbos, 97
It (King), 343
It's a Book (Smith), 339
Iwo Jima photograph, 50
J. Beattie, Essays (Creech), 252
“Jabberwocky” (Carroll), 171
Jackson, Timothy, 230
Jackson, Tom, 79
Jacobs, Lou, 337
Jake and Amir video series, 67
Jamieson, Kathleen, 33
Jane Eyre (Bronte), 181
Janus, Samuel, 311
Japanese humor, 104
Jargon, 329
Jeans, 97
The Jetsons (TV show), 124
Jewish humor,
Job Title Revision to Eliminate Sex- and Age-Referent Language from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Third Edition, 93
John Paul, Pope, 287
John Wayne syndrome, 168
Johnny Weissmuller field showers, 168
Johnson, Kory, 66
Johnson, Lyndon, 31
The Joke (Haydn), 212
Jokes
charged, 196
cruel, psychology of,
about disabilities, 129
ethnic, 132
about George Wallace, 285
about lawyers,
about Mecham,
of medical practitioners,
private vs. public, 131
succinctness of, 167
about Trump, 282
without words, 131
Jokes and Their Relation to Society (Davies), 14
Jones, John Bush, 234
Jones, Jordan, 346
Jones, Spike, 208
Jones, William J., 155
Joplin, Scott, 214
Joseph, Jofi, 61
Journalism, 140,
cartoons in newspapers and, 138
decline of newspapers and,
definition of, 140
ethics and standards in, 136
fake news vs. satire or parody and, 138
humor related to death and,
spin in political news and,
yellow,
The Joyful Christ: The Healing Power of Humor (Samra), 312
The Joyful Noiseletter, 312
Judaism, tragic vision and, 311
Judge Judy, 113,
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 178
Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own (Bombeck and Keane), 143
Juvenal, 179
Kaepernick, Colin, 289
Kant, Immanuel, 259
Katz, Mickey, 208
Kaye, Danny, 207
Keane, Bil, 143
Kehl, Del, 263
Kelly, Gene, 242
Kelly, Walt, 35
Kennedy, John F., 279
Kennesaw State University mascot, 270
Kern, Jerome, 206
Kesey, Ken, 180
Keystone Kops, 241
Kierkegaard, Soren, 260
Kimmel, Jimmy, 289
Kindergarten Cop (film), 240
King Lear (Shakespeare), 178
King, Martin Luther, 282
Kipling, Rudyard, 186
Kiss Me Kate (musical), 178
Klara, Robert, 331
Klee, Paul, 28
Kline, Franz, 29
Kolbe, John, 284
Koller, Marvin R., 86
Komische Oper, 206
Kondabolu, Hari, 197
Kovacs, Ernie, 208
Krefting, Rebecca, 195
Kriegman, Josh, 230
Krokodil (magazine), 165
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 172
Kuipers, Guiselinde, 263
L.H.O.O.Q. (Duchamp), 37
La Cage Aux Folles (musical), 205
Lacey, Franklin, 238
LaFontaine, Jean de, 248
Lakoff, George, 33
Landells, Ebenezer, 165
Langer, William, 279
The Langoliers (King), 179
Language, 251
acquisition of, 251
ambiguity and,
in animals, 250
for body parts, 199
initial and second acquisition of, 251
multilingualism and Jewish humor and, 24
source of, 248
Spanish, humor in, 22
speech organs and,
sweet,
tough, 321
Yiddish, 24
Larsen, Gwen, 301
Late Night (TV show), 288
Latino/a humor,
Latta, Robert, 252
Laughter
benefits of, 264
classification of, 263
decrease in social distance and, 263
paradoxes of, 264
physical effects of,
Tibetan Buddhism's stress on, 310
Laughter and Literature (Boyd), 252
The Laughter Remedy: Health, Healing and the Amuse System (McGhee), 199
Lavalier microphone, as eponym, 221
Law, 152,
funny state laws and,
Hustler Magazine, Inc. vs. Falwell and,
ironies and paradoxes in, 157
Judge Judy and,
light side of humor related to, 152
ownership of tweets and,
Lawson, Robert, 79
Lawyers, jokes about,
Lazarus, Clifford, 304
Leaf, Munro, 79
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (Sandberg), 89
Lear, Norman,
Lederer, Richard, 171
Lennon, John, 225
Leno, Jay, 20
Letterman, David, 18
Leviathan (Hobbes), 252
Levine, David, 31
Levine, Jacob, 264
Levit, Adi, 155
Lexicalization, 219
Leydon, Joe, 199
“Li'l Abner” (comic strip), 121
Lichtenstein, Roy, 39
Life Is Beautiful (film), 242
The Life of Pi (Martel), 325
Lighten Up: Survival Skills for People Under Pressure (Metcalf and Felible), 76
Like Water for Chocolate (Esquivel), 23
Lilley, Peter, 235
Linguistics,
Lipchitz, Jacques, 28
List jokes, 64
Lister, Joseph, 219
Literature,
comedies vs. tragedies and, 179
comedy as, 180
romance as, 180
Rowling's literary techniques and,
symbolism in, 177
tropes in,
Litotes, 329
Little Lulu, 34
Little Orphan Annie, 35
Little Shop of Horrors (musical), 216
Livingston, Jerry, 172
Lloyd, Donald, 297
Logan, Chris, 303
“Logic and Conversation” (Grice), 323
Logos, 321
Lolita (Nabokov), 325
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (Alexie), 19
Lopez, George, 196
Lord of the Flies (Golding), 179
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 171
Lost Horizons (Hilton), 97
Louis C.K., 20
The Loved One (Waugh), 180
Lovejoy, Bess, 346
Lowry, Lois, 165
Lucas, George, 240
Lucero, Richard, 284
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (song), 227
Lukovich, Mike, 82
Lurie, Alison, 76
Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 179
“M*A*S*H” (TV show), 125
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 178
MacFarlane, Seth, 126
MacGuffins, in film,
MacPherson, Doug, 32
Mad About You (TV show), 125
Mad Magazine, 34
Maelstrom, 97
"The Magic Fishbone" (Dickens), 171
The Magic Flute (Mozart), 211
Magnum, P.I. (TV show), 235
Maines, Natalie, 85
Mainstreaming, 129
“Mairzy Doats” (song), 208
Make Way for Ducklings (McCloskey), 79
Male, Brandon,
Malko, George, 92
The Maltese Falcon (film), 240
Mame (musical), 206
Manet, Édouard, 28
Maniscalco, Francis J., 309
Manning, Reg, 141
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (Shulman), 109
Marginalization, Jewish humor and, 25
Marketing, humor in,
Markham, Pigmeat, 15
Markstein, Gary, 283
The Marriage of Figaro (Beaumarchais), 159
Married with Children (TV show), 125
Marvel Comics, 34
Mary Magdalene, 219
Mascots, for sports teams,
The Mating Mind (Miller), 252
Mauldin, Bill, 128
Maus, 36
Max Rose (film), 113
Maximalism, 29
Maxwell, Mary, 110
Mayberry RFD (TV show), 123
Mayhew, Henry, 165
McAuliffe, Christa, 133
McCain, John, 280
McCarthy, Charlie, 20
McCarthy, Denis, 303
McCarthy, Joseph, 35
McClellan, George, 278
McCloskey, Robert, 79
McDormand, Frances, 245
McGraw, Phillip (Dr. Phil), 257
McHale's Navy (TV show), 336
Mead, Margaret, 92
Mecham, Willard, 288
Medhurst, Andy, 197
Medicine and health,
health psychology and,
joking by medical practitioners and,
physical effects of laughter and humor and,
Medieval clowns,
Meeting his Waterloo, 97
Meiosis, 187
Men in Black (film), 240
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 159
Mesmerize, as eponym, 222
Messiah (Handel), 211
Messing, Debra, 148
The Metamorphosis (Kafka), 181
Metamorphosis (Ovid), 236
Metcalf, C. W., 76
Metonymy, , 188
Mexican humor,
Meyers, Seth, 289
MICH theory of humor, 33,
Michigan Tech mascot, 272
The Mickey Mouse Club (TV show), 77
Middleground comics, 35
Middleton, Kate (Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge), 306
Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare), 178
The Milagro Beanfield War (Nichols), 24
Miller, Arthur, 179
Miller, Geoffrey, 252
Miller, Howie, 18
Milne, A. A., 76
Minimalism, 29
Minorities. See also specific minority groups
in sitcoms,
Minstrel shows, 15
Mintz, Larry, 14
The Miracle Worker (Gibson), 129
Miranda, Lin-Manuel, 234
Miró, Joan, 28
Mission Impossible III (film), 240
Mitchell, Margaret, 181
Moderate Intergroup Conflict Humor (MICH) theory, 33,
Modesto, California, 105
Molière, 180
Monet, Claude, 28
Montagu, John, 101
Moore, Julia, 328
Moore, Julianne, 244
Mordillo, Guillermo, 87
Morin, Robert E., 150
Mork and Mindy (TV show), 125
Mormon Church, 106
Morrison, Mary Kay, 194
“Mostly about People” (Buchwald), 145
Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession (Bombeck), 143
The Mousetrap (Christie), 178
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (TV show), 77
Mrs. Doubtfire (film), 241
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 178
Mud, as eponym, 221
Multilingualism, Jewish humor and, 24
The Munsters (TV show), 123
Musicals,
place names in, 99
The Musketeers (TV show), 77
My Fair Lady (Broadway play), 181
My Fair Lady (musical),
My Three Sons (TV show), 123
Mylander, Maureen, 198
Nabokov, Vladimir, 325
Nahemow, Lucille, 114
Nairobi Trio, 208
The Naked Gun (film), 241
Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan, 280
Nash, Ogden, 328
Nasruddin, Mullah,
National Airlines, 91
A National Joke: Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identities (Medhurst), 197
National Museum of Cartoon Art, 40
National Organization of Women (NOW)
New York State Chapter, newsletter of, 92
Navajo code-talkers, 17
NCIS (TV show), 126
Nealon, Kevin, 35
Negative word-play, 173
New World Symphony (Dvorˇák), 213
New York City, name for, 98
New York Herald Tribune, 144
New York Journal, 140
The New Yorker magazine, 33
NFL, 289
Nichols, John, 24
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 260
Nightline (TV show), 286
Nikulin, Yuri, 308
Nilsen, Alleen, background of, 70
Nilsen, Don, background of, 70
Nilsen, Kelvin Don, 223
Nixon, Richard, 279
Noah, Trevor, 288
The Noël Coward Song Book, 234
Nonsense, 170
Non-sequiturs, 330
Northanger Abbey (Austen), 179
Norton, Jane, 33
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (Duchamp), 37
Numeroff, Laura Joffe, 83
Nursery rhymes, 78
Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky), 213
Obama, Michelle, 33
Obituaries, humor in, 73,
Object permanence, 294
O'Brien, Conan, 20
Ocean, Frank, 160
O'Connor, Carroll, 172
O'Connor, Flannery, 20
O'Donnell, Christine, 33
O'Donnell, Rosie, 20
The Odyssey (Homer), 321
The Office (TV show), 125
Oh, Calcutta! (musical), 205
Oher, Michael, 79
Oklahoma (musical), 205
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (nursery rhyme), 82
Omaha, Larry, Jr., 18
One-liners, 330
The Onion magazine, 137
Online newspapers, 145
Open-mindedness, Tibetan Buddhism's stress on, 310
Orange Marilyn (Warhol), 39
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach), 213
Osman I, 219
Oswalt, Patten, 196
Othello (Shakespeare), 179
Ovid, 236
P. T. Loser, 173
Pace, Maud Isaacson, 120
Packer, Alferd E., 128
Pain tolerance,
Pajaro Lunar (Miró), 38
in the law, 157
Paralanguage, 265
Paralipsis, 188
Paravonian, Rob, 210
The Parent Trap (TV show), 235
Parents (Chagall), 37
“Paris after Dark” (Buchwald), 145
Parish, Peggy, 76
Parks and Recreation (TV show), 125
Parma ham, 101
Parton, Dolly, 209
Pastoral Symphony (Beethoven), 211
Patch Adams (film), 198
Pathos, 321
Patronyms, 218
Paul, Rand, 257
Peacherine Rag (Joplin), 214
Pecos Bill, 127
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (film), 240
Pee-Wee's Playhouse (TV show), 77
Pejoration, 220
Perez, Leo, 331
Perfect Husbands: and Other Fairy Tales (Barreca), 89
Performing arts,
Periphrasis, 188
Perkins, Donald Magie, 119
Perkins, Olive Magie, 119
Perot, Ross, 168
The Persistence of Memory (Dalí), 38
Personality traits, 297
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev), 213
Peter Principle, 43
Peter, Laurence, 43
Peters, Mike, 279
Philosophy,
language and, 251
Philosoraptor, 261
Phoenix Suns basketball team, mascot of, 268
Physical humor, globalism and, 102
Picaresque novels, 181
Picasso, Pablo, 28
The Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 170
Pickwickian syndrome, 170
Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), 181
Pierce, Samuel, 290
Pierrot clowns, 337
Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan), 310
Pink Floyd (band), 235
The Pink Panther (film), 241
Pinocchio (film), allusion in, 167
Pinterest, 60
The Pirates of Penzance (opera), 235
Place names
globalism and,
humorous,
as model names for vehicles, 99
negative, assignment of, 100
recycling of, 100
in titles of musicals, 99
Pluperfect Pogo (Kelly), 35
Poe, Nathan, 157
“Pogo”, 121
Pointillism, 28
Police Academy (film), 241
Political correctness, 281
Political news, spin in,
Polka dance, 100
Polyptoton, 189
Poor Richard's Almanac, 139
Popeye, 35
Popov, Oleg, 338
Porter, Cole, 234
Portnoy's Complaint (Roth), 180
Posada, Guadalupe José, 340
Positive humor, negative humor vs., 46
Pragmatics: An Introduction, 2nd Edition (Mey), 325
Priest, Robert, 165
Private jokes, public jokes vs., 131
The Producers (musical), 236
Prokofiev, Sergei, 213
The Providence Bulletin, 35
Provine, Robert, 263
Psychology,
comic vs. tragic vision and, 295
of cruel practical joking,
development of humor appreciation and,
of health,
Humor Styles Questionnaire and,
of sarcasm,
traits, states, and behaviors and,
The Psychology of the Simpsons: D'oh! (Brown and Logan), 303
Public art, culture and, 102
Public jokes, private jokes vs., 131
Public Law 94-142, 129
Puhlik-Doris, Patricia, 301
Pulitzer, Joseph, 139
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino), 180
Punch and Judy puppet shows, 206
Puns (Redfern), 76
Purple Onion, 196
Pygmalion (Shaw), 236
Pynchon, Thomas, 208
Rader, Martha, 175
Ram, connotations of, 85
Realism, in art, 28
Rebecca (Du Maurier), 325
Rebellious Laughter (Boskin), 129
Redfern, Walter, 76
Redwater, 18
Rehnquist, William, 234
Reiner, Carl, 26
Religion,
accidental humor from children and,
cartoons and,
church humor and, 315
ecumenism and,
group identity and, 313
humor in politics and, 313
humor to relieve religious stress and,
Renaissance Europe, clowns of, 335
Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 28
Reservations, for American Indians, 273
Reservoir Dogs (film), 243
Reyna, Jose R., 23
Rhetoric and composition,
cooperative principle and,
errors vs. rhetorical devices and,
Rice, Dan, 338
Richard III (Shakespeare), 178
Richman, Roger, 154
Rickles, Don, 298
Ricks, Beth, 293
Riddles, 77
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi tales (Kipling), 186
Ring Cycle (Wagner), 211
Rinoceronte Vestido con Puntillas (Dalí), 38
Riser, Kevin, 306
The Rivals (Brinsley), 172
Rivers, Joan, 298
Robinson, Vera, 194
Rockwell, Sam, 245
Rocky Horror Picture Show, 215
Rodgers, Richard, 207
Rogers, Rob, 191
“The Role of the Innocent in Television Situation Comedy Series” (Eiseman and Spangehl), 286
Romance, 180
Romanian humor, 105
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 178
Romney, Mitt, 281
Ronald McDonald, 343
Roosevelt, Theodore (Teddy), 31
Roseanne (TV show), 125
Rosenthal, Joe, 50
Rossini, Gioachino, 212
Rosten, Leo, 25
Roth, Philip, 180
Rowland, Lee, 151
Roxanne (film), 240
Ruell, Jim, 18
Russian clowns, 338
Ruth, 114
Ryan, April, 289
The Sacrament of the Last Supper (Dalí), 38
Safronovan, Valeriya, 160
Sahl, Mort, 280
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 212
Saks Fifth Avenue, 102
Saldanha, Jacintha, 306
Samra, Cal, 312
Sandberg, Sheryl, 89
Sanders, Sarah Huckabee, 290
Sandwich, 100
Sanford and Son (TV show), 123
Santa Claus, 338
Saporta, Sol, 93
Sappho, 97
Sarcasm,
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 260
Saturday Night Live (TV show), 289
Sausage fest, 231
Scarry, Richard, 248
Scary clowns,
Schemes, tropes vs.,
"Schickele Mix" (radio show), 216
The Schickele Rag (newsletter), 216
Schmuck, David, 291
Schulz, Charles, 35
Schwartz, Alvin, 294
Schwarz, Jerry, 157
Scots, jokes about, 21
Scotti, Elena, 93
Scottish immigration, 20
Scottish terms, connotations of, 22
Scottsdale Community College mascot, 271
Screwball comedies, 241
Scripts, what makes them funny,
Seasons, symbolism of, 177
Secret of the Andes (Clark), 119
Security is a Thumb and a Blanket (Schulz), 35
Segal, George, 39
Seinfeld (TV show), 125
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor (Raskin), 253
Sendak, Maurice, 80
Seneca, 259
Sense of humor, , 301
Sensorimotor intelligence, 294
Sesame Street (TV show), 77
Sessions, Jeff, 150
Seurat, Georges, 28
Seven-Seconds rule, 31
Sex and the City (TV show), 125
Sexism and Language, 91
Sexism, in English language, 93
Sexting, 231
Shanghaied, 97
The Shari Lewis Show (TV show), 77
Sharpton, Al, 257
Shatner, William, 113
Shaughnessy, Micky, 20
Shazam!, 34
Shelby, Richard C., 150
Shelley, Mary, 179
Shelton, Gilbert, 34
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 20
Sherman, Allan, 235
Short, Martin, 336
Show Boat (musical), 206
Shulman, Max, 109
Siegal, Mark, 286
The Signifying Monkey (Gates), 347
Silbermann, Ben, 60
Silent movies, 241
Sills, Beverly, 209
Silvers, Phil, 207
Similes, 187
The Simpsons (TV show), 125
Sister Act (film), 240
Situation comedies (sitcoms),
aliens in, 125
birth of, 121
current, 126
dramatic,
family stories as, 123
minorities in,
Sixty Minutes (TV show), 286
Skelton, Red, 295
The Slants (band), 151
Slapstick comedy, 337
Slavery, 15
Smiley face emoticons, 75
Smith, Lane, 339
Smith, Will, 123
Soap operas, on radio, 121
Social media, 62
Sociology,
clowns and,
humor and hostility and,
Solomon, Diana, 90
Some Like It Hot (film), 241
The Sound of Music (musical), 212
Soupy Sales (TV show), 77
South Park (TV show), 126
Space bubbles, 277
Spaceballs (film), 239
Spacey, Kevin, 244
Spamalot (musical), 216
Spangehl, Stephen, 286
Spanish language humor,
Sparky, the Sun Devil,
Spaulding, Henry, 25
Spears, Britney, 280
Specialization, eponyms and, 220
Speech organs,
Spellcheck, dialogue problems caused by, 58
Spelling errors, 330
Spelling, original, 16
Spencer, Robert, 251
Spencer, William, 259
Spice World (film), 241
Spicer, Sean, 290
Spiegelman, Art, 36
Spin City (TV show), 125
Spin, in political news,
Spock, Benjamin, 92
Spooky Southwest: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore (Schlosser), 324
Spoonerisms, 330
St. Pierre, Paul Matthew, 90
The Stand (King), 180
Standards, in journalism, 136
Stanford University, mascot of, 271
Stanton, Toni, 284
Stapleton, Jean, 172
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (film), 240
State laws, funny,
State Press, 70
States,
Statue of Liberty
in cartoons, 32
Steinberg, Elyse, 230
Steinem, Gloria, 88
Stengel, Richard, 65
Stereotyping, 16
Stevens, James, 127
Stevens, Ted, 81
Stewart, Jimmy, 239
Stimulus-response hypothesis of language acquisition, 250
Stir Crazy (film), 241
Stoker, Bram, 179
Stopsky, Fred, 75
Street-language terms, for body parts and functions, 199
Stress, religious, humor to relieve,
String Quartet Opus 33, Number 2 (Haydn), 212
Struthers, Sally, 172
Stuffy language, 323
Sturgis (mascot), 270
Stuttgarter Zeitung, Germany (Mordillo), 87
Subjects of humor, 3
Sullivan, Annie, 129
The Sunshine Boys (film), 241
Superiority theory of humor, 252
Superman, 34
Surprise Symphony (Haydn), 212
Survival humor, 129
Suslov, I. M., 252
Svebak, Sven, 199
Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky), 213
Sweet language,
Sykes, Wanda, 197
Symphony Number 94 (Haydn), 212
Synesis, 189
Taboo aspects of society, as subjects of humor, 3
Taking Laughter Seriously (Morreall), 252
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Blume), 76
Talk is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language (Haiman), 304
Tam, Simon, 151
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 178
Tannen, Deborah, 33
Tanner, Tony, 171
Tarzan, 35
Tautology, 330
Taxi (TV show), 125
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, 213
Team mascots,
Team sports, 266
Teddy bears, 31
Telegraphic stage of language acquisition, 250
Television
children's,
fake news and, 7
late night TV political humor and,
replacement of newspapers as news and entertainment source, 141
The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe), 325
Tempe, Arizona City Hall, 30
Tendentious humor, 195
Tense shifts, 330
Tensions, humor to relieve,
Te'o, Manti, 306
Texting, 59
Thelma and Louise (film), 89
They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted (Barreca), 89
The Thieving Magpie (Rossini), 212
The Third Wave (Toffler), 55
30 Rock (TV show), 124
Thomas, Danny, 26
Thomas, Marlo, 26
Thoughts on Laughter (Hutcheson), 252
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (film), 245
Three Stooges, 13.24 278
Three's Company (TV show), 125
Time for Beany (TV show), 77
Titanic (film), 240
To My Betrothed (Chagall), 37
Toffler, Alvin, 55
Tolkien, J. R. R., 171
Tom Jones (Fielding), 181
Tomlin, Lily, 196
Tongue, speech and, 249
Too Funny to Be President (Udall), 114
Tootsie (film), 241
Totenberg, Nina, 152
Toth, Emily, 86
Tough, Sweet and Stuffy: An Essay on Modern American Prose Styles (Gibson), 321
Toy Story (film), 240
Trading Places (film), 241
Tragedies, comedies vs., 179
Tragicomedy, in film, 242
Traits,
humor preference as, 301
Travelling minstrel shows, 15
Trite expressions, 320
Tropes,
adophasis as, 188
allegories as, 185
allusions as, 185
archaisms as, 186
circumlocution as, 186
hyperbole as, 186
incongruity as, 186
innuendo as, 187
irony as, 186
meiosis as, 187
metaphors as, 187
metonymy as, 188
oxymoron as, 186
paradox as, 186
paralipsis as, 188
periphrasis as, 188
personification as, 189
polyptoton as, 189
Rowling's use of,
schemes vs.,
similes as, 187
synecdoche as, 188
synesis as, 189
Trudeau, Gary, 287
Trump, Donald, 60, 114, 150, 231, 257
Comey firing and, 292
jokes about, 282
late-night TV humor about,
racism of, 289
State of the Union speech of,
Trump, Melania, 289
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, 106
Tucker, Sophie, 24
Tumblr, 60
Turing Test, 59
Tweed, Boss, 102
Tweets, ownership of,
Twins (film), 240
Twitter,
Two and a Half Men (TV show), 125
Tyler, Robin, 196
Udall, Mo, 114
Underground Comix, 34
Universal theory of humor,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mascot,
University of North Carolina School of Art mascot, 271
University of Oklahoma mascots, 269
University of Texas in Austin mascot, 269
Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature (Barreca), 89
Urban legends,
Valdez, Jeff, 24
Van Eyck, Jan, 28
Van Gogh, Vincent, 29
The Vanishing Hitchhiker (Brunvand), 346
Vehicles, place names as model names for, 99
Velázquez, Diego, 28
Vergis, John, 313
Very Hungry Caterpillar (Carle), 83
Videos, Internet,
The Village Musicians (Haydn), 211
vlogs, 67
Wales, 100
Walker, Mort, 40
Wallace, George, jokes about, 285
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 140
Walthers, Daniel, 270
The Waltons (TV show), 123
The War Prayer (Twain), 179
Wardle, Claire, 138
Warhol, Andy, 39
Warren, Rusty, 196
Warych, Kevin, 343
Washington, George, 279
Washington State mascot, 272
Wasserstein, Wendy, 90
Watterson, Bill, 35
Watts, Naomi, 245
Waugh, Evelyn, 180
Wayne, John, 154
Webber, Andrew Lloyd, 207
Weddings, cartoons about, 310
Weiner, Anthony, , 292
Weiner, Frances Finkelstein, 228
Weiner, Mort, 228
Weir, Kelly, 301
Weller, Christine E., 161
Welsh immigrants, 21
West Point mascot, 269
“What Do the Scary Clowns Want?” (Lovejoy), 346
What Kinda Cactus Izzat? (Manning), 141
Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), 80
Whitman, Meg, 33
Why did the chicken cross the road?,
Why, Arizona, 105
Wilde, Larry, 13
Wilde, Oscar, 20
Wilkinson, Signe, 32
William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame, 40
Williams, Dylan, 329
“Willie and Joe” cartoons, 128
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (film), 239
Wilson, Lanford, 99
Wilson, Meredith, 238
Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne), 76
Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons, 82
Wizard of Oz (Baum), allusions to, 82
Wodehouse, P. G., 234
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice (Dickinson, Higgins, St. Pierre, Solomon, and Zwagerman, eds.), 90
Wonder Wart-Hog (Shelton), 35
Woods, Tiger, 81
Woodzicka, Julie, 46
Wooten, Patty, 194
Word choice, incorrect, 330
Workplace humor,
The World According to Evan Mecham (Siegal), 286
The World According to Garp (Irving), 180
World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made, 93
“Would you Like to Swing on a Star?” (song), 208
Wright, Sylvia, 314
Wright, Steven, 20
Wrongful Impeachment (Mecham), 288
Wuthering Heights (Brontë), 179
Wynn, Ed, 24
Xavier University mascot, 272
