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Author:

Jennings, Ken, 1974- author.

Title:

Planet funny : how comedy took over our culture / Ken Jennings.

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

vii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Wit and humor--History and criticism.
Comedy--History and criticism.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1501100580
9781501100581

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1035849245

LCCN:

bl2018063558

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