This paper focuses on little-known humorous English sporting articles initially published in the 1830s and early 1840s in popular British periodicals and books and then reprinted in William T. Porter's Spirit of the Times, a New York newspaper. This paper explores subject matter, character types, narrative strategies, and stylistics of representative English comic sporting articles and pairs them with similar texts of Old Southwest humor, the former perhaps helping to pave the way for the genesis of a new quintessential humor genre.