The Importance of Being Funny 9781442281769, 9781442281776, 1442281766

When E. B. White said "analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,"

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English Pages xxiv, 141 pages ; 23 cm Year 2017

The Importance of Being Funny
9781442281769, 9781442281776, 1442281766

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Table of contents :
A brief, highly selective, and somewhat fallacious history of humor and joke telling --
How do you make funny? so, what's a joke? --
Comedy and coping with reality --
Dirty jokes, tasteless jokes, ethnic jokes --
Conversations with a colleague about humor and ethics --
Philogagging: humor in the classroom and beyond.

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