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Only joking : what's so funny about making people laugh?

Only joking : what's so funny about making people laugh?

Carr, Jimmy, Greeves, Lucy
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Britain's hottest young comedian presents a seriously funny, up-close look at joking matters — from the social origins of laughter, to the art and craft of humor, to why we can never remember the punch line — featuring over 300 jokes

As the host of the hit game show Distraction (now in its third season on Comedy Central) and one of the premier stand-up acts working today, award-winning comedian Jimmy Carr has won over millions of fans around the world with his trademark rapier wit, laced with "exquisitely economical and perfectly timed one-liners" (The Guardian). For this book he teams up with friend and fellow comedy writer Lucy Greeves to take an in-depth look at where humor comes from and how it works, through exploring its purest form: the joke.

Only Joking begins with the mechanism of laughter — how it happens and why even infants do it — then delves into the power of the punch line, exploring the basics of all jokes, from the use of shock and...

Anno:
2007
Casa editrice:
Penguin Publishing Group;Macmillan Reference Usa
Lingua:
english
ISBN 10:
0786293586
ISBN 13:
9780786293582
File:
MOBI , 477 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2007
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