Description: A pleasurable look at the comic imagination of Lake Wobegon's favorite son and contemporary America's favorite humorist Garrison Keillor. This first full-length analysis of Keillor's humor traces the evolution of the Lake Wobegon monologue and examines the themes and comic techniques of the songs, poems, dramas, commercials, and the audience-participation events. Illustrations.
Brief description: Judith Yaross Lee is a professor and director of honors tutorials in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. She is author of Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture, Defining "New Yorker" Humor, and Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America, all published by University Press of Mississippi.