TV Humor

Horace Newcomb is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. degree from Mississippi College in 1964. He attended the University of Chicago as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and received his M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities and Ph.D. in English. He has taught at colleges and universities in Iowa (Cornell College), Michigan and Maryland. In 1976-1977, he was a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago studying Culture and Technology. Professor Newcomb is the author of TV: The Most Popular Art and editor of Television: The Critical View.
Part of the National Affairs Series: Humor in America.