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Only joking : what's so funny about making people laugh? / Jimmy Carr & Lucy Greeves.
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- ISBN: 1592402356 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvi, 300 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Gotham Books, c2006.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-286) and index. |
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| Subject: | Wit and humor > History and criticism. |
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Table of Contents
Only Joking : What's So Funny about Making People Laugh?
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | p. ix | |
| 1 | Joking Matters: Why jokes are important | p. 1 |
| 2 | Tickling the Naked Ape: The science of laughter | p. 13 |
| 3 | Send in the Clowns: The early evolution of the stand-up comic | p. 35 |
| 4 | Only Kidding: How children learn to joke | p. 59 |
| 5 | Nuts, Bolts and Hydraulic Brains: Dissecting the joke | p. 77 |
| 6 | No Way to Make a Living: How to be a professional joker | p. 101 |
| 7 | Take My Wife...No, Please: Take My Wife: Joking across the gender divide | p. 139 |
| 8 | Beyond the Pale?: Offensive jokes and why we laugh at them | p. 163 |
| 9 | An Englishman, an Irishman and a Rabbi...: The checkered history of ethnic jokes | p. 187 |
| 10 | Sometimes the Joke Gets Elected: Why we need political jokes | p. 215 |
| 11 | Knock Knock. Who's There? The Police.: When jokes get taken to court | p. 237 |
| 12 | The Last Laugh | p. 261 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 277 | |
| Notes | p. 279 | |
| Further Reading/Viewing | p. 287 | |
| Index | p. 291 |
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