January 26, 2007
Taking Humor SeriouslyWithout Being Glum
Stop me if you've heard this one: A humanities professor walks into a bar and begins an act of hermeneutical exegesis. He does not have a parrot on his shoulder. He is not sitting next to a dwarf. The buxom blond bartender does not comment on the lack of a parrot.
Maybe you had to be there.
With a warm-up like that, two comedy acts fresh from the fall's university-press circuit — Stephen E. Kercher's Revel With a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America and Paul
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