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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clayton, Alex, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sketches > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Comedie > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Comedy sketches > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Comedy > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The trouble with comic theory
  • Take offs
  • Thought experiments
  • Prime numbers
  • Pitched battles
  • Conclusion: the rhetoric of humor.

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