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Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Release Year
- 2018
- ISBN
- 9781501100581
- Book Title
- Planet Funny : How Comedy Took over Our Culture
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Social Science, Performing Arts, Humor
- Topic
- Popular Culture, Comedy, Topic / Language
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year From the brilliantly witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings, a history of humor--from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes--that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world. For millennia of human history, the future belonged to the strong. To the parent who could kill the most animals with sticks and to the child who could survive the winter or the epidemic. When the Industrial Revolution came, masters of business efficiency prospered instead, and after that we placed our hope in scientific visionaries. Today, in a clear sign of evolution totally sliding off the rails, our most coveted trait is not strength or productivity or even innovation, but being funny. Yes, funniness. Consider: presidential candidates now have to prepare funny zingers for debates. Newspaper headlines and church marquees, once fairly staid affairs, must now be "clever," stuffed with puns and winks. Airline safety tutorials--those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning--have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. In Planet Funny , Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means--or doesn't--to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python's game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons , Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. Entertaining, astounding, and completely head-scratching, Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1501100580
ISBN-13
9781501100581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239416361
Product Key Features
Book Title
Planet Funny : How Comedy Took over Our Culture
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Culture, Comedy, Topic / Language
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Social Science, Performing Arts, Humor
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn6147.J46 2018
Reviews
When did comedy become so serious and the daily news become so laughable? In his latest book, Ken Jennings provides excellent insight in detailing how comedy has infiltrated every corner of contemporary American culture - for better or for worse. Planet Funny is an illuminating take on that old clich: 'Everybody's a comedian.', Ken Jennings has achieved what physicists have always said was impossible: he's written a book that analyses the mechanics of humor while being very funny. To paraphrase EB White, if analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, in this case the frog is shouting 'Ooh! That tickles! More! Do it again!'|9781501100581|, When did comedy become so serious and the daily news become so laughable? In his latest book, Ken Jennings provides excellent insight in detailing how comedy has infiltrated every corner of contemporary American culture - for better or for worse. Planet Funny is an illuminating take on that old cliché: 'Everybody's a comedian.', This book is full of good sense and meaningful interviews, and it would be difficult to find a smarter or more satisfying treatment of a subject so evanescent and idiosyncratic as comedy., Ken Jennings hops aboard our thundering avalanche of comedy and surfs it like a pro. Lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings, Planet Funny is for the comedy geek in all of us., An entertaining deep dive into culture... a highly entertaining yet genuinely scholarly look at the evolution of humor., Ken Jennings has done the impossible: he's written an actually funny book about comedy. Ken is brilliant and incisive and the kind of guy with so many smarts that it makes you go, 'Man, that guy's really smart.' Fans of comedy will love Planet Funny and will undoubtedly wonder why I am not mentioned more., A philosophical conundrum Jennings expertly navigates....Jennings's remarkable research and clever hand make an impressive and highly entertaining work that pop culture enthusiasts will not want to miss., America's biggest brain turns his attention to modern comedy -- and delivers a book full of humor and insight. As a reader, I'm delighted... and as a comedy writer, I'm annoyed that he understands my field better than I do. Stay off my turf, Jennings!, This book is fascinating, entertaining and - I'm being dead serious here - important. The joke-ification of our world affects everything: politics, science, art, literature. And Ken tells the tale with wit and insight, not to mention a couple of fart jokes.
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-296934
Dewey Decimal
809.7
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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