Author | : Gus Berry |
Publisher | : Methuen Childrens Books |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780416134322 |
Author | : Gus Berry |
Publisher | : Methuen Childrens Books |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780416134322 |
Author | : Jimmy Carr |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2006-09-21 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1440627207 |
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 surprise to advanced stand-up techniques such as the "pull-back/reveal." Carr and Greeves go on to explore taboo humor, jokes that bomb, and the psychology of finding something funny. They look into the long-standing connection between politics and humor, and discuss the survival prospects for contentious jokes in the current political climate. Throughout the book they conjure up a supporting cast of colorful joke enthusiasts, from Sigmund Freud to Lenny Bruce, and discuss their influence on the jokes we tell today. Surveying across national, ethnic, and gender divides, this rollicking analysis of why joking will always be close to the human heart is an irresistible exploration of humor that makes clear why we need a good laugh now more than ever.
Author | : Matthew M. Hurley |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 026201582X |
Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
Author | : Jackie Martling |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1998-10-07 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1439136912 |
The head writer for The Howard Stern Show lives "down" to his raunchy reputation with this hilarious collection of the very best jokes, stories, songs, and one-liners-from the naughty to the irreverent to the politically incorrect. Here are the gems from the private files from the man infamous for knowing every joke there ever was. In comedy clubs from coast to coast since 1979, “The Joke Man” has dared audiences to start a joke he couldn’t finish. Now he takes no prisoners, spares no ethnic or social group, and exhibits not one ounce of good taste in this wildly offensive, outrageously funny collection of dirty jokes.
Author | : Isabel Cilliers |
Publisher | : Juta |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : |
Author | : I. P Happy |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781729582299 |
Great Gift for dad! The giver can personalise the front cover, so he can think of you while telling his cheesy, but clean dad jokes. Q. Someone robbed the coffee shop! a. You're saying they got mugged? :P Everyone loves cheesy, badly timed dad jokes because they are told by your dad, and you only get one dad, right? So, help your dad improve his collection of bad jokes that will make will you laugh and cringe at the same time. A superb Christmas gift for Dad, Father's Day Gift, or Birthday Gift for Dad.
Author | : Arcturus Publishing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Knock-knock jokes |
ISBN | : 9781841931234 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jasper Fforde |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2009-12-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101159650 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series comes a “laugh-out-loud funny” (Los Angeles Times) and “brilliantly original” (Booklist, starred review) novel of a man attempting to navigate a color-coded world. “A rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness.”—The Washington Post Welcome to Chromatacia, where the Colortocracy rules society through a social hierarchy based on one’s limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the backwater village of East Carmine, his carefully cultivated plans to leverage his better-than-average red perception and marry into a powerful family are quickly upended. Eddie must content with lethal swans, sneaky Yellows, inviolable rules, an enforced marriage to the hideous Violet deMauve, and a risky friendship with an intriguing Grey named Jane who shows Eddie that the apparent peace of his world is as much an illusion as color itself. Will Eddie be able to tread the fine line between total conformity—accepting the path, partner, and career delineated by his hue—and his instinctive curiosity that is bound to get him into trouble?