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SLIDESHOWS
Ars Antigua: Musical Jokes of the Baroque
Black Humor
David Blight: 2009 Baskes Lecture in History
Blacks, Jews, and the Comedy of Subversion
Stuart Brown: The Importance of Being Playful
Chicago Sports
Burnham Centennial Program: The Future of Chicago
An Incomplete History of Comedy in Hyde Park
Commedia dell’arte
Barbara Ehrenreich: 2009 Doris Conant Lecture on Women and Culture
Dr. Paul Farmer: Public Health in Haiti
Four Women Talk About Being Funny
Aaron Freeman: The Book of Job and the Comedy of Suffering
Gilman Sander
Dick Gregory: The Color of Funny
Guerrilla Girls: Feminist Masked Avengers
Richard Halpern: Laughing at Norman Rockwell
John Hodgman: More Information Than You Require
Wayne Koestenbaum: The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
Tony Kushner: 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize
Laughter and the First Amendment
Jonathan Lethem: Writers on the Record
Alison Lurie and Bill Savage: Literary Laughs
Lucky Plush Productions and The Beckett Boys
Opera and Laughter
Torey Malatia: This American Laugh
Robert Mankoff: Cartoon Caption Contest
Senator Claire McCaskill: A Perspective on Progress
Muntu Dance Theatre
Interview: Irene Pepperberg and Alison Cuddy
Robert Provine: Cracking the Laughing Code
Harold Ramis: A History of Film Comedy
Robert Reich
Bob Sabiston: Drawing with Life
Michael Salinger: Well-Defined
Barry Sanders: The Subversive Humor of Lenny Bruce
Simon Schama Tells Jewish Jokes
Herbert Siguenza: From Cantinflas to Culture Clash
Tim and Tom: A Comedy in Black and White
Mel Watkins: On the Real Side
Katie Watson: Gallows Humor
Elizabeth Zimmer: Foot is a Funny Word
Trickster!
The New Yorker Cartoonists
The Lamentations of Ian Frazier
Mary Beard: What Made the Ancient Romans Laugh?
Jayne Anne Phillips and Nick Reding: 2009 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Jules Feiffer: Depression-Era Humor
Ourselves As Others See Us: One Year Post-Election
Anuradha Needham: Laughter, Bollywood-Style
Bruce Burningham: Parody and Postmodernism
E. Patrick Johnson: Pouring Tea
Firoozeh Dumas and Sandra Tsing Loh
From Vice to Virtue: Molière’s Comedic Mission
Aleksandar Hemon and Garry Wills: 2008 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners
Dick Gregory: The Color of Funny
