God's Fools: Laughing Saints, Delirious Prophets, and the Sacred Makers of Comedy

Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks

Clown Scenes

Outside Looking In: The Seriously Funny Life and Work of George Carlin

Weird Al: Seriously, Expanded Edition

The Sanity of Satire: Surviving Politics One Joke at a Time

Weird Al: Seriously

Cheers: A Cultural History

Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes's Birds

Understanding Comedy through College Comedies

The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives

Charlie Chaplin's Red Letter Days: At Work with the Comic Genius

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice

The Laughing Dead: The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland

Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies: From Anarchy to Mockumentary

Comediennes: Laugh Be a Lady

Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small

Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy

Why Is That So Funny?: A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy

Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh

The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian

Heaven and Hell to Play With: The Filming of The Night of the Hunter

Zero Dances: A Biography of Zero Mostel

The Film Comedy Reader

Talking Funny for Money: An Introduction to the Cartoon/Character/Looping Area of Voice-Overs

Art Carney: A Biography

Days and Nights at The Second City: A Memoir, with Notes on Staging Review Theatre

Ivanov

Eccentrics of Comedy

Comedy: An Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism