The importance of being funny / Al Gini.
Publisher: Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017Description: pages cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781442281769 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 152.4/3 23
- BF575.L3 G56 2017
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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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.