Good Bullet
Subtitle: Comedy, Violence and All the Terrible Things That Make Us Laugh
Publisher: Short Books, Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781780721699
Subjects: Humor, general
Description: From the co-writer of the record-breaking BBC3 sitcom, Bad Education. ?Doctor, doctor, what do you call a book about comedy that tries to be funny, argumentative, wide-ranging, silly, weirdly personal and fairly well-researched?' ?Doomed to failure.' Bullets are violent. Jokes are violent. Can either be used for good? What is ?good'? A Good Bullet will make next to no effort to answer the last question because it's too hard. But it will have a crack at asking why and how jokes commit violence. Why and how they amuse us with things that otherwise cause us anxiety and pain. Why an.