On Jokes Or Why Everything You Know About Comedy Is Wrong
On Jokes Or Why Everything You Know About Comedy Is Wrong
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Book Summary
About the Book: On Jokes (or, why everything you know about comedy is wrong) The Big Bang Natural Selection E = mc2 All pretty decent theories, that beg one question: why has no-one discovered a fully unified theory for what makes jokes funny? Well, comedy director Amanda Baker, comedy writer Abi Grant and stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr have done just that. In this book, in case thats not obvious. From how to identify the families of jokes, to decoding the building blocks of comedy, to the real-and brand new-secret to comic timing, On Jokes does for comedy what decoding the genome did for designer babies.
ISBN-13
9781529454239
Language
English
Binding
Trade Paper Back
Publisher
Quercus
Publishing Date
2026-10-22
Product Edition
1
Total Pages
400

On Jokes Or Why Everything You Know About Comedy Is Wrong

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Book Summary
About the Book: On Jokes (or, why everything you know about comedy is wrong) The Big Bang Natural Selection E = mc2 All pretty decent theories, that beg one question: why has no-one discovered a fully unified theory for what makes jokes funny? Well, comedy director Amanda Baker, comedy writer Abi Grant and stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr have done just that. In this book, in case thats not obvious. From how to identify the families of jokes, to decoding the building blocks of comedy, to the real-and brand new-secret to comic timing, On Jokes does for comedy what decoding the genome did for designer babies.
Book Specifications
ISBN-13
9781529454239
Language
English
Binding
Trade Paper Back
Publisher
Quercus
Publishing Date
2026-10-22
Product Edition
1
Total Pages
400