Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh? by Jimmy Carr & Lucy Greeves

Author:Jimmy Carr & Lucy Greeves
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Comedy, Humor, Psychology
ISBN: 9781440627200
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2006-09-20T14:00:00+00:00

I’m not a breast man. I’m a breast person.—John Wilson

And a joke is still a fairly blunt instrument of communication. It’s functional, to the point; it requires very little emotional investment. In fact it often helps to conceal the degree of our personal involvement with a subject or situation. Horace Walpole wrote, “The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” Of course he wasn’t distinguishing between men and women: for people of either gender, telling jokes can be a good way of substituting thinking for feeling. Nevertheless, we can’t help feeling (and thinking) that “joke” is a fundamentally masculine noun.

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