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Informationen zum Autor Al Gini is a professor of business ethics at Loyola University Chicago. For over twenty-seven years, he was the resident philosopher on National Public Radio’s Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
