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Importance of Being Funny

Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives
  • ISBN-13: 9781442281769
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Al Gini
  • Price: AUD $40.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2017
  • Format: Hardback 168 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Humour [WH]
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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. Not everyone tells jokes. Not everyone gets a joke, even a good one. But, Gini argues, joke-telling can act as both a sword and a shield to defend us from reality. As the late, great stand-up comic Joan Rivers put it: 'If you can laugh at it, you can live with it!' This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, but also wants to know why.
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: Conversations with a Colleague about Humor and Ethics Chapter 6: Philogagging: Humor in the Classroom and Beyond Epilogue Notes Suggested Readings/Humor and Comedy Index About the Author
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