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Jennings, Ken, 1974-
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Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Comedy -- History and criticism.
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Jennings, Ken, 1974-
Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Comedy -- History and criticism.
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Planet funny : how comedy took over our culture / Ken Jennings.
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Jennings, Ken, 1974-
Scribner, 2018.
Call #:
809
.7
J44p
Subjects
Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Comedy -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9781501100581
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
vii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.
Contents:
Our funny century -- Funny for no reason -- The march of progress -- Notes from an epidemic -- A little more conversation -- Everyone's a comedian -- Bon Jovi, come home -- Mirth control -- A blurry, amorphous thud -- We shall overcomb -- New tiryntha.
Summary:
Presents a history of humor, from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter memes, that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world.
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