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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Clayton, Alex, 1979- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020.
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.