Humour, so much a part of everyday communication and the pleasure of media consumption, has been strangely marginalised in journalism/communication studies. This innovative volume, edited by Richard Lance Keeble and David Swick, at last puts the focus on the funniest pages with studies of print and online journalism in a wide range of countries: Brazil, Britain, Spain, Mexico, the Philippines and the United States of America.

Separate sections look at �Humour in Journalism, Yesterday and Today�, �The Witty Ways of Literary Journalists� and �The Politics of Being Funny�. Topics include:

� George Orwell�s Humour.
� Humour in the First Decades at the New Yorker.
� The Idiosyncratic, Witty Journalism of �Revolutionary� Russell Brand.
� Humour in Mexican Illicit Drug Trade-Related Cr�nicas.
� The Role of the Satirical Press during the Spanish Civil War.
� Mill�r Fernandes�s Legacy and the Role of Humour in Brazilian Journalism.

The contributors include Amy Forbes; Josep Llu�s G�mez-Mompart, with Dolors Palau-Sampio, Jos� Luis Valhondo-Crego and
Mar�a Iranzo-Cabrera; Nicol�s Llano Linares; Rhiannon McGlade; Sarah Niblock; Novia D. Pagone; Carolyn Rickett; Mathilde Roza; Miki Tanikawa; Ave Ungro and Garry Whannel.

Students and teachers in journalism, communication studies, humour studies, sports media, computer studies and media history will all find something fascinating in this text.