On Second Thought

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Editorial| April 01 2022 On Second Thought Studies in American Humor (2022) 8 (1): 3–12. https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation On Second Thought. Studies in American Humor 1 April 2022; 8 (1): 3–12. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0003 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressStudies in American Humor Search Advanced Search Editors:In her response to my article “Cutting to the Punch: Graphic Stunt Comedy and the Emergence of Crisis Slapstick” (StAH 7, no. 1 [2021]: 11–38), Maggie Hennefeld raises a number of important questions about fraught humor and body crisis, particularly as they relate to the radical alterity of risk taking and violence in different historical eras, which I agree are underexplored in my essay.1 Hennefeld’s observation that earlier examples of radical crisis slapstick comedic disruptions can be found in theater, pornography, and avant-garde performance spaces (Ahwesh, Wishman, Waters, etc.) is particularly insightful, and I intend to address those disruptions in my forthcoming book. However, Hennefeld’s main critique, as far as I can decipher it, is that I am drawing a distinction between slapstick and crisis slapstick that does not exist because slapstick has always had a power for “destabilizing the known world, especially during moments of intense... You do not currently have access to this content.