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The Importance of Being Funny - Al Gini

The Importance of Being Funny

Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives

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Buch | Hardcover
168 Seiten
2017
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-8176-9 (ISBN)
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When E. B. White said “analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,” he hadn’t seen Al Gini’s hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish fun: it serves as a safety valve for dealing with reality that gives us the courage to endure that which we cannot understand or avoid. Not everyone tells jokes. Not everyone gets a joke, even a good one. But, Gini argues, joke-telling can act as both a sword and a shield to defend us from reality. As the late, great stand-up comic Joan Rivers put it: ‘If you can laugh at it, you can live with it!’ This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, but also wants to know why.

Al Gini is a well-known Chicago radio personality, professor, and the author of a number of books that examine contemporary topics in American culture and other themes including: My Job My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual (Routledge, 2000); The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure, and Vacations (Routledge, 2003) Why It’s Hard to Be Good (Routledge, 2006); and Seeking The Truth of Things (ACTA, 2010). Gini has been interviewed on several national and international media outlets including: “The Bob Edwards Show”, NPR’s “Morning Edition”, NBC’s “Nightly News”, CBS News, ABC News, CBC Canada, WTTW Chicago, WGN Chicago, Stanford University’s “Philosophy Talk”, South African National Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, Massachusetts Public Radio, CBS Radio, and San Francisco Public Radio. For over twenty-eight years he has been the “Resident Philosopher” on National Public Radio’s Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM, and he regularly lectures to community and professional organizations on issues in popular culture, business and ethics.

Acknowledgments
Prologue

Chapter 1: A Brief, Highly Selective, And Somewhat Fallacious History of Humor and Joke Telling
Chapter 2: How Do You Make Funny? So, What’s a Joke?
Chapter 3: Comedy and Coping with Reality
Chapter 4: Dirty Jokes, Tasteless Jokes, Ethnic Jokes
Chapter 5: Conversations with a Colleague about Humor and Ethics
Chapter 6: Philogagging: Humor in the Classroom and Beyond

Epilogue
Notes
Suggested Readings/Humor and Comedy
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 144 x 226 mm
Gewicht 331 g
Themenwelt Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga Humor / Satire
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 1-4422-8176-6 / 1442281766
ISBN-13 978-1-4422-8176-9 / 9781442281769
Zustand Neuware
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