The importance of being funny : why we need more jokes in our lives / Al Gini.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442281769
- ISBN: 1442281766
- Physical Description: xxiv, 141 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-136) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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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Subject: | Laughter > History. Wit and humor > History. Joking > Social aspects. |
Genre: | History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lowell PL - Lowell | 152.43 GINI (Text) | 33113034249302 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Discusses why humor is a safety valve for dealing with reality and argues that it provides the courage to endure things that cannot be avoided or understood. - NBN
As the late, great stand-up comic Joan Rivers put it: âIf you can laugh at it, you can live with it!â This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, but also wants to know why. - NBN
When E. B. White said âanalyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,â he hadnât seen Al Giniâs 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: âIf you can laugh at it, you can live with it!â This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, but also wants to know why.