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Preface and acknowledgments
Irony and incongruity in American humor
Frontiers, suburbs, politics, and poop: setting, episodic structure, and the American carnivalesque in the Southwest humorists and animated television programs
No laughing matter: the relationship between American humor and American collective memory and history
African-American multiculturalism in The PJs and The Boondocks
The unkindest cut: animated television programs and postmodernism
Conclusion: Irony and nihilism: postmodern, or American?
Irony and incongruity in American humor
Frontiers, suburbs, politics, and poop: setting, episodic structure, and the American carnivalesque in the Southwest humorists and animated television programs
No laughing matter: the relationship between American humor and American collective memory and history
African-American multiculturalism in The PJs and The Boondocks
The unkindest cut: animated television programs and postmodernism
Conclusion: Irony and nihilism: postmodern, or American?