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American Political Humor

2019
This two-volume set surveys the profound impact of political humor and satire on American culture and politics over the years, paying special attention to the explosion of political humor in today's wide-ranging and turbulent media environment. Historically, there has been a tendency to regard political satire and humor as a sideshow to the wider ...
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Humor and Politics

Russian Social Science Review, 2006
(2006). Humor and Politics. Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 64-100.
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From humor to political dispositions: effect of disparagement humor on perceptions of political identity

HUMOR, 2023
Abstract An experiment (n = 202; 136 women; 66 men) demonstrated that people use implicit theories about liberals and conservatives to guide their impression of another person based on their humor, specifically, the degree to which their humor violates the individualizing and binding moral foundations described by Moral Foundations ...
Willam E. Rice, Thomas E. Ford
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Race, Humor, and Politics

2020
AbstractFrom a country of emigrants, Italy has recently become a receiver of migrants. These new, reverse direction migratory flows have triggered strong reactions by Italians, such as nativist discourses about national culture and identity and aggressive, exclusionary, anti-immigration politics.
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Political Humor and Its Effects

2022
The historical evidence suggests that political humor (PH) is endemic to the human experience, and many assume that various political humorists or works of PH have been responsible for producing social or political change. Implicit in this assumption is the idea that exposure to PH can affect how individuals understand the political world ...
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The Politics of Socratic Humor

The European Legacy, 2020
Should we consider irony as a good thing for democratic life? As it is portrayed in the classical texts through which we know Socrates, eirōneia appears as a humble manifestation of self-consciousn...
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Politics of Socratic Humor

2018
How was Socrates funny? Was he an ironist? Did he mock his interlocutors and, in doing so, show disdain for both them and the institutions of Athenian democracy? These questions were debated with great seriousness by three generations of Greek writers and helped to define a primary strand of the Western tradition of political thought.
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American Humor in Literature and Politics

News for Teachers of Political Science, 1985
The lights dim. The students stir nervously, not sure of what to expect of the strobe light and the background music from "Thriller." The student course guide had recommended American Humor in Literature and Politics, but no one had been able to locate a living survivor to provide a personal testimony.
William Hill, Dennis Lape
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The Importance of Political Humor

2019
Since ancient times, political humor has enabled people to cope with the adversities of life as well as make fun of their leaders’ shortcomings. In recent decades, the late night comics of television have used a variety of formats to ridicule those who possess political authority.
Stephen J. Farnsworth, S. Robert Lichter
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Couching Political Criticism in Humor

2019
This chapter analyzes the music of two military bands: Zangalewa of Cameroon and Zao of Congo-Brazzaville. Zangalewa is the marching band of the presidential guard in Cameroon. Part of its “Suffering Soldier's Medley,” a self-deprecating military entertainment piece, was actually a subtle politico-cultural parody, couched in jester's garb, that ...
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