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  1. Funny How?
    Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor
    Author: Clayton, Alex
    Published: 2020; ©2020
    Publisher:  State University of New York Press, Albany

    Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works. Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Trouble with Comic Theory -- Sudden Glory/"Swimming Pool" -- Strained... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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    Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works. Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Trouble with Comic Theory -- Sudden Glory/"Swimming Pool" -- Strained Expectation /"Monks' Humor" -- Mechanical Inelasticity/"Awkward Conversation" -- Conceptual Incongruity/"Sir Digby Chicken Caesar" -- Against the Grand Reduction -- 2 Takeoffs -- "Stayin' Alive" -- "Acorn Antiques" -- "Spiffington Manse" -- 3 Thought Experiments -- "Argument Clinic" -- "Gerald the Gorilla" -- "Toilet Party" -- 4 Prime Numbers -- "Breakfast" -- "Boardroom" -- "Hot Tub" -- 5 Pitched Battles -- "Four Yorkshiremen" -- "Price War" -- "Singing Contest" -- Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Humor -- Logos -- Ethos -- Pathos -- Comedy in Three Dimensions -- Works Cited -- Index.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781438478302
    Series: SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Ser.
    Subjects: Comedy-History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (162 pages)
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