HUMOR WEB SITES
by Don L. F. Nilsen
and Alleen Pace Nilsen
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN
HUMOR
*DAVE CHAPPELLE:
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/chap
pelles_show/index.jhtml
*CHRIS ROCK:
http://www.chrisrock.com/
MY WIFE AND KIDS:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/mywifeandkids
/gallery.html
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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
DON NILSEN WEB SITE:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~dnilsen
HUMOR STUDIES AT ARIZONA STATE
UNIVERSITY:
http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/h
umor.html
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BUSINESS
DILBERT:
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert
/
HUMOR AT WORK (CLYDE FAHLMAN):
http://home.teleport.com/~laff9to5/index.ht
ml
HUMORWORKS (JOHN MORREALL):
www.humorworks.com
http://www.humorworks.com
*THE OFFICE:
http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/
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COMIC ANIMATION:
*FAMILY GUY:
http://www.familyguy.com/
*THE SIMPSONS:
http://www.thesimpsons.com/index.html
*SOUTH PARK:
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/south_park/in
dex.jhtml
SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS:
http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/toonroom/sponge/m
enu.php
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GENDER HUMOR:
*MARGARET CHO:
http://www.margaretcho.com/audio_visual/audio_vis
ual.htm
*DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/desperate/index.html
*ELLEN DEGENERES:
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/
*WILL AND GRACE:
http://www.nbc.com/Will_&_Grace_Finale/
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HUMOR RESEARCH
THE HUMOR COLLECTION (RUTH HAMILTON):
www.thehumorcollection.org
HUMOR MATTERS (STEVE SULTANOFF):
http://www.humormatters.com
THE HUMOR PROJECT (JOEL GOODMAN):
www.HumorProject.com
*INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HUMOR
STUDIES (MARTIN LAMPERT):
www.humorstudies.org
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JEWISH HUMOR:
*Yiddish with Dick and Jane:
http://www.vidlit.com/yidlit/
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LINGUISTIC HUMOR & LANGUAGE PLAY:
*AMERICAN DIALECT
SOCIETY:
http://americandialect.org/
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LITERATURE
J. K. ROWLING:
http://www.jkrowling.com/
*LEMONY SNICKET:
http://www.lemonysnicket.com/VileVideos/v
ideo1.html
ART SPIEGELMAN:
http://lambiek.net/artists/s/spiegelman.htm
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MEDICINE
GESUNDHEIT INSTITUTE (Patch
Adams)
http://www.patchadams.org/
GREY’S ANATOMY:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysan
atomy/
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MOVIES
*BORAT:
http://www.borat.tv/
*JESUS IS MAGIC (Sarah Silverman):
http://www.jesusismagicthemovie.com/
*RATATOUILLE:
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/ratatouille/
*TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE:
http://www.teamamerica.com/
*TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES:
http://tmnt.warnerbros.com/
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NAMES
AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY:
http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS/
GOOGLE ME—THE MOVIE:
www.googlemethemovie.com
THE NAMESAKE:
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thenamesake
/
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PLAY
The Association for the Study of Play:
http://www.csuchico.edu/kine/tasp/
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POLITICS
AL FRANKEN:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0291253/
AL FRANKEN, NOT:
http://www.lyingliar.com/
*BILL MAHER:
http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/video
/
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PULITZER PRIZE CARTOONISTS
2003 PULITZER PRIZE: DAVID HORSEY
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/
2004 PULITZER PRIZE: MATT DAVIES
http://www.comicspage.com/mattdavies/matt_about.
html
2005 PULITZER PRIZE: NICK ANDERSON
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/properties/anderson
/home.php
2006 PULITZER PRIZE: MIKE LUCKOVICH
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/luckovi
ch/index.html
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SATIRE
HARVARD LAMPOON
http://www.harvardlampoon.com/
MAD MAGAZINE
http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/madmagazine/ho
me.jsp
*THE MAD MARTIAN MUSEUM OF MODERN MADNESS:
http://www.madmartian.com
*THE ONION (CAROL KOLB):
http://www.theonion.com
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SITCOMS I
*DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/desperate/
*FRIENDS:
http://www2.warnerbros.com/friendstv/container.htm
l
*TWO AND A HALF MEN:
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/two_and_a_half_men
/
*THE WINNER:
http://www.fox.com/winner/
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!SNIGLETS:
RICH HALL’S SNIGLETS:
http://www.ziplink.net/users/wood/fu
nny/snigglets.html
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!SPANISH-AMERICAN HUMOR:
GEORGE LOPEZ:
http://www.georgelopez.com/home/h
ome.html
*CARLOS MENCIA:
http://www.comedycentral.com/show
s/mind_of_mencia/index.jhtml
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!!STAND-UP COMEDY:
*GEORGE CARLIN:
http://www.georgecarlin.com/home/3
.asp
*JEFF FOXWORTHY:
http://www.jefffoxworthy.com/homep
age.shtml
*SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/vi
deo/
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!!!TALK SHOWS
*STEPHEN COLBERT:
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_
colbert_report/index.jhtml
*JON STEWART:
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_s
how/index.jhtml
*JAY LENO:
http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_wit
h_Jay_Leno/
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