This is an updated edition of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke, published in 2006. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it explores the rela
Kuipers explores the relationship between sense of humor and social background, specifically looking at how people think about standardized jokes ending in a punch line, and which the teller does not
A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor--in a variety of forms--to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001, and, more specifically, the aftermath. This i
