Comic Visions, Second Edition is an update of the most influential critical history of American television comedy.

• Most comprehensive social and critical history of American television comedy
• Very engaging, lucid and entertaining writing style
• Approaches social criticism without being too scholarly and pedantic

David Marc teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California and at the Department of Film and Television, UCLA. He is a frequent contributor to The Village Voice and is the author of Demographic Vistas, Revised Edition (1996), and Bonfire of the Humanities (1995).