Al Gini

The Importance of Being Funny (eBook, ePUB)

Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442281776
• Artikelnr.: 49746136

Autorenporträt

Al Gini is a professor of business ethics at Loyola University Chicago. For over twenty-seven years, he was the resident philosopher on National Public Radio's Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM.

Inhaltsangabe

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