The importance of being funny
Subtitle: why we need more jokes in our lives
By: Al Gini
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781442281769
Subjects: Social aspects; Wit and humor; Laughter; Joking; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-136) and index.
Table of contents: title: A brief, highly selective, and somewhat fallacious history of humor and joke telling; title: How do you make funny? so, what's a joke?; title: Comedy and coping with reality; title: Dirty jokes, tasteless jokes, ethnic jokes; title: Conversations with a colleague about humor and ethics; title: Philogagging: humor in the classroom and beyond.