The Importance of Being Funny

Höfundur: Al Gini (Útgáfa: 1)
The Importance of Being Funny

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When E. B. White said “analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,” he hadn’t seen Al Gini’s hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish fun: it serves as a safety valve for dealing with reality that gives us the courage to endure that which we cannot understand or avoid.

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Útgefandi
Bloomsbury USA
ISBN
9781442281776
Print ISBN
9781442281769
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Al Gini
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2017-07-25
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: A Brief, Highly Selective, and Somewhat Fallacious History of Humor and Joke Telling
  • Chapter 2: How Do You Make Funny? So, What’s a Joke?
  • Chapter 3: Comedy and Coping with Reality
  • Chapter 4: Dirty Jokes, Tasteless Jokes, Ethnic Jokes
  • Chapter 5: A Conversation with a Colleague about Humor and Ethics
  • Chapter 6: Philogagging: Humor in the Classroom and Beyond
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Suggested Readings/Humor and Comedy
  • About the Author