Laughing Matters

  • Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France
    By Sara Beam

    See Gaultier Garguille Foire Saint-Germain, 164, 165 Fontanon, Antoine, 63m.58, 79m3, 126n39 Fonteny, Jacques, 163 fools, 29, 53–54, 132 prince of, 22, 74, 111 Foucault, Michel, 8n 11 Fouqueray, Henri, 214n.6 Fournel, Victor, ...

  • Laughing Matters: Humor and American Politics in the Media Age
    By Jody Baumgartner, Jonathan S. Morris

    This book examines the role of humor in modern American politics.

  • Laughing Matters: A Serious Look at Humour
    By Jonathan Miller, John Durant, John R. Durant

    A serious examination of what constitutes jokes and humour, with particular reference to social and psychological aspects. It deals with such questions as: why do we find certain people and...

  • Laughing Matters: Humor and American Politics in the Media Age
    By Jonathan S. Morris, Jody C. Baumgartner

    This book examines the role of humor in modern American politics. Written by a wide range of authors from the fields of political science and communication, this book is organized...

  • Laughing Matters: Humour in the Language Classroom
    By Peter Medgyes

    120 activities to inject some lighthearted fun into lessons whilst still being grounded in respected language learning theory.

  • Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India
    By Lee Siegel, Professor of Religion Lee Siegel

    Hearing a boisterous and bawdy voice from India's past, Siegel has provided original and highly entertaining translations of Sanskrit literature that reveal a sparkling sensibility embedded in the texts.

  • Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India
    By Lee Siegel

    And as she danced the earth shuddered beneath her blood - stained feet , and she laughed again and again her wild laughter . “ Kālī , with her face of terror , laughed savagely with wrath , laughed a horrible caterwaul , and the light ...

  • Laughing Matters: Learning to Laugh When Life Stinks
    By Phil Callaway

    So let hilarious humorist Phil Callaway show you—as only he can—that some of the darkest times are those just before the fridge door opens. *** ** *** ** “Everything Phil Callaway writes is full of life because he’s discovered a ...

  • Laughing Matters: Humor and American Politics in the Media Age
    By Jonathan S. Morris, Jody C. Baumgartner

    We got factories closing down / Where the hell did all the good jobs go? ... Hirin' kids in Mexico / Oh a brother can work in fast food/ Ifhe can't invent computer games / But what we used to call America / That's going down the drains/ ...

  • Laughing Matters: Learning to Laugh When Life Stinks
    By Phil Callaway

    So let hilarious humorist Phil Callaway show you—as only he can—that some of the darkest times are those just before the fridge door opens. *** ** *** ** “Everything Phil Callaway writes is full of life because he’s discovered a ...

  • Laughing Matters: Bits and Pieces of This and That, Wits and Verse from a Poet's Hat.
    By Alfred Colo

    -Verse With everything at stake, you can't afford not to make all the right moves, you choose, or you lose. -1All the right moves, no fumble, with a light touch, so humble, you make my cookies crumble in all the right grooves.

  • Laughing Matters: On Writing M-A-S-H, Tootsie, Oh, God!, and a Few Other Funny Things
    By Larry Gelbart

    Larry Gelbart is the comic genius who developed M*A*S*H for TV, one of the longest-running, most beloved series in history; he was a much-admired member of that memorable gaggle of...

  • Laughing Matters
    By Steven Jacobi

    What makes young people laugh? Where does the urge to make people laugh come from? And just how hard can it be to become a stand-up comedian? In pursuit to...

  • Laughing Matters: Theses and Discussions
    By Giorgio Baruchello, Ársæll Már Arnarsson

    ... four dimensions relating to individual differences. Two were detrimental and two benign.93 The resulting four functions being: (1) Affiliative humour. Those who are high on this dimension tend to say funny things, tell jokes, and engage in ...

  • Laughing Matters: Theses and Discussions
    By Giorgio Baruchello, Ársæll Már Arnarsson

    ... Cannibalism in Cross - Cultural Perspective . Indianapolis : Dog Ear . Fairfield , Paul ( 2000 ) . Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition : The Politics of Individuality . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Fambrini , Alessandro ...

  • Laughing matters: Understanding film, television and radio comedy
    By Glyn White, John Mundy

    ... Laughter, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. Gray, Frances (2009) 'Privacy, Embarrassment and Social Power ... Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Halas ...

  • Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television and Radio Comedy
    By Glyn White, John Mundy

    Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and contexts.

  • Laughing Matters: A Celebration of American Humor
    By Gene Shalit

    "Here, to lift the spirits, is the most distinguished collection of American humor in half a century, and perhaps the most varied ever.

  • Laughing Matters: Everyday Adventures of a Dorky Life
    By Sharon May

    The only thing domestic about me is that I'm housebroken - usually." Introducing Sharon May, who dedicates her weekly humor column to the idea that Laughing Matters.

  • Laughing Matters
    By Larry Gelbart

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