Maria Bamford: Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

Scott Weems: Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why

John Guillory: On Close Reading

Robert R. Provine: Laughter

Kim Beil: Anonymous Objects

Helmuth Plessner: Laughing and Crying

Sumit Paul-Choudhury: The Bright Side

John Morreall: The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor

Andrea Wilson Nightingale: Genres in Dialogue

Cicero: How to Tell a Joke

David E. Cooper: Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge

Daniel Wickberg: The Senses of Humor

John Limon: Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or Abjection in America

Jeremy Dauber: Jewish Comedy

Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett: Uproarious

Mara van der Lugt: Hopeful Pessimism

Julian Barnes: Changing My Mind

Devorah Baum: The Jewish Joke

Bambi Haggins: Laughing Mad

Lawrence W. Levine: Black Culture and Black Consciousness

Rebecca Krefting: All Joking Aside