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Introduction: popular culture and post 9-11 politics / Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene

First responders. Everything changes forever (temporarily): late-night television comedy after 9-11 / David Gurney

"Where was King Kong when we needed him?": public discourse, digital disaster jokes, and the functions of laughter after 9-11 / Giselinde Kuipers

The Arab is the new nigger: African American comics confront the irony & tragedy of 9-11 / Lanita Jacobs

Humor, terror, and dissent: The onion after 9-11 / Jamie Warner

Enter the "war on terror." Laughs, tears, and breakfast cereals: rethinking trauma and post 9-11 politics in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Ted Gournelos

Republican decline and culture wars in 9-11 humor / David Holloway

Critique, counternarratives, and ironic intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert / Viveca Greene

Humoring 9/11 skepticism / Michael Truscello

Rethinking post-9/11 politics. Laughing doves: U.S. antiwar satire from Niagara to Fallujah / Aaron Winter

Hummer rhymes with dumber: neoliberalism, irony, and the cartoons of Jeff Danziger / David Monje

Laughing all the way to the bank: Enron, humor, and political economy / Gavin Benke

What's so funny about a dead terrorist?: toward an ethics of humor for the digital age / Paul Lewis

Coda: humor, pedagogy, and cultural studies / Arthur Asa Berger.

Political culture > United States > History > 21st century.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.

Mass media > Political aspects > United States.

American wit and humor > History and criticism.

United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009 > Humor.

United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.