Irony In The Post-9/11 Age: Comedy And Tragedy As 'Very Strange Roommates'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/09/03/140150115/irony-in-the-post-9-11-age-comedy-and-tragedy-as-very-strange-roommates

Humor analysis in a Post 9/11

Comedy Since 9/11: Comics Reflect On What It Took To Get New York Laughing Again

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/sep/05/comedy-911-comics-reflect-what-it-took-get-new-york-laugh-again/

Tokyo-based author and translator Matt Alt has a post up today on Altjapan about the history of anthropomorphizing tsunamis in Japan.
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