PART 1: 'The President? Charlie Chaplin?' Comedians, Comedy and American Politics After Vaudeville 1 - Mole Hill Men: US Comedians and the Avoidance of Politics in the Early Twentieth Century 2 - Big Name Hunter? Will Rogers and the Politics of Kidding the Famous 3 - No Axe to Grind?: US Comedians and the New Deal 4 - They Didn't Come on the Mayflower: US Comedy, Race and Ethnicity After Vaudeville 5 - Dumb Doras: American Comedy and the Feminine After Vaudeville PART 2: The Tramp and the Pentagon Clown: Comedy and Cold War in the United States 6 - Tramp: Charlie Chaplin and the Politics of Pathos 7 - Charlie and Charles: Chaplin, his Art and the Fluctuating Politics of Peace 8 - 'I'm Sick and Tired of People Asking if I'm This, if I'm That' : Chaplin, the American State and the Cold War 9 - Bob Hope: 'Easy to Take, but Hard to Remember' 10 - Bob Hope and the US War Machine: Entertaining the Privates, Lunching with the Generals 11 - Fast Man with a Squaw, Slow Man with a Buck: Bob Hope, Gender Politics and the Cold War Part 3: Material Nobody Else Could Perform: Comedy, Politics and the Other Americas 12 - Mort Sahl: Came to Mock, Remained to Pray 13 - An Overdose of Police: Lenny Bruce, the Politics of the Body and the Body Politic 14 - Giving Up on My Species: George Carlin and American Capitalism 15 - Turning Racial Turmoil into a Fun Evening: Dick Gregory, Race, Class and Food 16 - Bill Cosby: Selling Reassurance 17 - Richard Pryor: I Wasn't Malcolm, Martin or Anybody Else 18 - Bill Hicks: You're Not That Far From Being a Preacher. 19 - 'I Pity Any Pretty Woman.': American Comedy and the Feminine Mystique Part 4: You Have to Love Your Country More Than You Dislike the President: Comedy, American Politics and the Sorrows of Empire 20 - 'He's President of the United States. We've got to do stuff on this guy': Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show and the Politics of American Satire 21 - 'It Was Meant to be about Gender Politics, not Actual Politics': Comedy, Celebrity and Identity Politics in Twenty First Century America 22 - 'She's Joking. He's Not' Comedy and American Politics in the Time of Trump Afterword: Comedy and American Politics in the 2020s - Three Vignettes Trump Redux Gaza: 'There's so much bloodshed over there. It's really hard to joke about it now.' Climate Comedy: 'The car is going off a cliff and we're fiddling with the radio'.