One can understand humor in terms of one or some combination of the three types of humor (incongruity, release, superiority) and also by envisioning humor as a finite-province of meaning in the ...

But historically, African-American humor has been divided. Some was created for black audiences. Another was for whites. Today, African-American comics are bridging that divide. In today's special ...

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Readers of his 2021 memoir “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker” already knew that Damon Young’s writing is as funny as it is poignant and insightful; the book won the Thurber Prize for American ...