Gini, Al,  1944- <br/><br/>
The importance of being funny / 
Al Gini. 
 - pages cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>A brief, highly selective, and somewhat fallacious history of humor and joke telling -- How do you make funny? so, what's a joke? -- Comedy and coping with reality -- Dirty jokes, tasteless jokes, ethnic jokes -- Conversations with a colleague about humor and ethics -- Philogagging: humor in the classroom and beyond. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442281769 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016057922 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Laughter--History.<br/>Wit and humor--History.<br/>Joking--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF575.L3  / G56 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>152.4/3