02194cam a2200337 4500 468439937 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781442281776 1442281774 B076JHRR47 Amazon f0be7f1b-a1ac-46ad-b2bb-c4fee32eb502 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3608496 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gini, Al. The Importance of Being Funny [Libby] : Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1774kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1771kB. Performing Arts. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) When E. B. White said "analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies," he hadn't seen Al Gini's hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish fun: it serves as a safety valve for dealing with reality that gives us the courage to endure that which we cannot understand or avoid. Not everyone tells jokes. Not everyone gets a joke, even a good one. But, Gini argues, joke-telling can act as both a sword and a shield to defend us from reality. As the late, great stand-up comic Joan Rivers put it: 'If you can laugh at it, you can live with it!' This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, but also wants to know why. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f0be7f1b-a1ac-46ad-b2bb-c4fee32eb502&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f0be7f1b-a1ac-46ad-b2bb-c4fee32eb502&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f0be7f1b-a1ac-46ad-b2bb-c4fee32eb502&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)