Funny How? : Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor /
"What makes something funny? Some take this question to be effectively unanswerable, while others turn to comic theory. Funny How? offers a new approach, showing how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayon writes that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2020.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The trouble with comic theory
- Take offs
- Thought experiments
- Prime numbers
- Pitched battles
- Conclusion: the rhetoric of humor.