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Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren’t funny. But today’s funny women aren’t a new phenomenon—they have generations of hysterically funny foremothers. Fay Tincher’s daredevil stunts, Mae West’s linebacker walk, Lucille Ball’s manic slapstick, Carol Burnett’s athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres’s tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg’s sly twinkle, and Tina Fey’s acerbic wit all paved the way for contemporary unruly women, whose comedy upends the norms and ideals of women’s bodies and behaviors. Hysterical! Women in American Comedy delivers a lively survey of women comics from the stars of the silent cinema up through the multimedia presences of Tina Fey and Lena Dunham. This anthology of original essays includes contributions by the field’s leading authorities, introducing a new framework for women’s comedy that analyzes the implications of hysterical laughter and hysterically funny performances. Expanding on previous studies of comedians such as Mae West, Moms Mabley, and Margaret Cho, and offering the first scholarly work on comedy pioneers Mabel Normand, Fay Tincher, and Carol Burnett, the contributors explore such topics as racial/ethnic/sexual identity, celebrity, stardom, censorship, auteurism, cuteness, and postfeminism across multiple media. Situated within the main currents of gender and queer studies, as well as American studies and feminist media scholarship, Hysterical! masterfully demonstrates that hysteria—women acting out and acting up—is a provocative, empowering model for women’s comedy.

American wit and humor --- Women comedians --- Feminism. --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Body image in women. --- History and criticism.

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Jews --- American wit and humor, Pictorial --- Antisemitism in art. --- Antisemitism in the press. --- Press --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History. --- Press coverage --- History

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"Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--

American wit and humor. --- American literature --- Lincoln, Abraham, --- Linkŭln, Abrakham, --- Linkolʹn, Avraam, --- Linkūln, Ibrāhīm, --- Linkan, ʼAbrehām, --- Lincoln, A. --- Lin-kʻen, --- Linken, --- Lin, Kʻen, --- Lingkʻŏn, --- Lincoln, Abe, --- Liṅkan, Ēbrāhaṃ, --- Liṅkan, Abrahāṃ, --- לינקאלין, --- לינקאלן, אייברעהעם, --- לינקולן, אברהם --- 林肯, --- Liṅkana, Ābrāhama,

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"This is an improbable but true adventure story written by an 18th century liberal who found himself to be the owner of an entire town in rural southern Indiana. The town, ironically enough named "Story", is on the northern fringe of hill country, an area settled primarily by Germans who built towns and breweries along the mighty Ohio River, and Scotch-Irish, who pioneered inland, establishing a church at every crossroad, and a still in every holler. Topographically, ethnically, and culturally, this area sets itself apart from the rest of Indiana. It is a land of churches, caves, limestone quarries, manufactured homes, Harley Davidson rallies, Dixie flags, meth labs and gun stores, and it is called Kentuckiana."--Provided by publisher.

Brown County (Ind.) --- Indiana --- Brown Co., Ind. --- State of Indiana --- Hoosier State --- Indiǣna --- إنديانا --- Indīyāna --- Indiana suyu --- Штат Індыяна --- Shtat Indyi︠a︡na --- Індыяна --- Indyi︠a︡na --- Индиана --- Índíʼyéenah Hahoodzo --- Ιντιάνα --- Intiana --- Πολιτεία της Ιντιάνα --- Politeia tēs Intiana --- Estado de Indiana --- Indianio --- Stato de Indianio --- Indăn --- ʻInikiana --- Индианæ --- Indianæ --- אינדיאנה --- Indiʼanah --- Indiana Territory --- Social conditions --- Rural conditions --- Social life and customs --- Hofstetter, Richard R., --- Story Inn (Brown County, Ind.) --- Hofstetter, Rick, --- United States --- Rural population --- Freethinkers --- American wit and humor --- Politics and government --- Attitudes. --- American literature --- Free thinkers --- Rationalists --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural