Title: What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event /
Authors: O'Shannon, Dan.
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Comedy History and criticism Theory, etc.
Abstract: Presents an entirely new approach to comedy theory. It challenges long-held beliefs and shows how the three main theories of comedy (incongruity, superiority, and relief) are not in conflict; but rather, work as parts of a larger model.
Contents: Overview : Common comedy theories ; The comedic event ; Documenting the comedic event -- pt. I. Elements of context: the reception factors : The receiver and his world ; Elements of communication ; Vehicles ; Level of control and identifying the source -- pt. III. Comedic information : Fundamental components ; Incongruity ; Cognitive process ; Variations ; Comedy and entropy -- pt. III. Enhancers, inhibitors, and aspects of awareness : How comedic information triggers enhancers and inhibitors ; Elements of the joke's communication, structure, and content -- Summing it all up.