Time magazine cover February 27, 2017
Satire News Sites
- American Buffoons
- The Beaverton (Canadians are funny too)
- The Borowitz Report (The New Yorker)
- Clickhole
- Cracked
- Daily Current
- El Koshary Today (Egyptian version of The Onion)
- The Onion
- Reductress
- Real News Right Now
- Saturday Night Live (Weekend Update)
- Weekly World News
Just Plain Funny Sites
- College Humor.com (a little bit of everything, especially funny video skits)
- Magazine Parody (a great site for tracing the history of the subject with plenty of images)
- Cracked (some of the funniest videos online)
College Humor Publications (click on the name of the publication)
Additional Readings for Graduate Students
(of course, these might also be useful for undergraduates to help beef up their essays)
HUMOR—GENERAL
The First Joke: Exploring the evolutionary origins of humor
SATIRE—GENERAL
Developing a Normative Approach to Political Satire: An Empirical Perspective
Political Parody and Public Culture
Satire's changing target
The Satirist, The Law, And Society
The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report
HISTORY—GENERAL
Companion to satire: an introduction
Editorial cartoon: a critical historical sketch
People have to watch what they say
The cartoon as a historical source
HISTORY—PRE 19TH CENTURY
Ben Franklin on the curve of satire
What Poor Richard cost Benjamin Franklin
Humor in Franklin's hoaxes and satires
Restoration satire
Devouring Posterity: A Modest Proposal, Empire, and Ireland's "Debt of the Nation"
HISTORY—19TH CENTURY
Mark Twain and May Isabel Fisk: Parallels in Comic Monologues
"Holy John" Wanamaker: Color Cartoon Centerfold
The Golden Age of American Political Cartoons
OTHER VOICES
Learning to make racism funny in the 'color-blind' era
Racism without hatred" Racist humor and the myth of 'Color-blindness'
African-American humor, irony, and satire
African American Satire and Harlem Renaissance Literary Politics: A Review
The Transparent Mask: American Women's Satire 1900-1933
Dorothy Parker and New Yorker satire
Dorothy Parker's satire
ONLINE READING Religion and Freedom of Speech: Cartoons and Controversies Satire, Persecution, & Charlie Hebdo African American Satire and Harlem Renaissance Literary Politics: A Review
The First Joke: Exploring the evolutionary origins of humor
SATIRE—GENERAL
Developing a Normative Approach to Political Satire: An Empirical Perspective
Political Parody and Public Culture
Satire's changing target
The Satirist, The Law, And Society
The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report
HISTORY—GENERAL
Companion to satire: an introduction
Editorial cartoon: a critical historical sketch
People have to watch what they say
The cartoon as a historical source
HISTORY—PRE 19TH CENTURY
Ben Franklin on the curve of satire
What Poor Richard cost Benjamin Franklin
Humor in Franklin's hoaxes and satires
Restoration satire
Devouring Posterity: A Modest Proposal, Empire, and Ireland's "Debt of the Nation"
HISTORY—19TH CENTURY
Mark Twain and May Isabel Fisk: Parallels in Comic Monologues
"Holy John" Wanamaker: Color Cartoon Centerfold
The Golden Age of American Political Cartoons
OTHER VOICES
Learning to make racism funny in the 'color-blind' era
Racism without hatred" Racist humor and the myth of 'Color-blindness'
African-American humor, irony, and satire
African American Satire and Harlem Renaissance Literary Politics: A Review
The Transparent Mask: American Women's Satire 1900-1933
Dorothy Parker and New Yorker satire
Dorothy Parker's satire
ONLINE READING Religion and Freedom of Speech: Cartoons and Controversies Satire, Persecution, & Charlie Hebdo African American Satire and Harlem Renaissance Literary Politics: A Review