Christopher Miller’s American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny (Harper, 2014) mentioned on this site back in the summer of 2013, is out today. There is no way anyone interested in humor won’t find this book essential reading. Some of the contents: Bananas and Banana Peels, Sausage and Hot Dogs, Cops and Nightsticks, Moochers, Hypnotism, and Back Seat Drivers. All these topics and many many more are explored in detail, and are accompanied by a wheelbarrow full of illustrations (the book also includes a number of New Yorker cartoons).