The importance of being funny /
Gini, Al, 1944-
The importance of being funny / Al Gini. - pages cm
Includes index.
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.
9781442281769 (cloth : alk. paper)
2016057922
Laughter--History.
Wit and humor--History.
Joking--Social aspects.
BF575.L3 / G56 2017
152.4/3
The importance of being funny / Al Gini. - pages cm
Includes index.
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.
9781442281769 (cloth : alk. paper)
2016057922
Laughter--History.
Wit and humor--History.
Joking--Social aspects.
BF575.L3 / G56 2017
152.4/3