How To Add Humor To Your Novel: Learn To Write Funny Scenes

by Lisa Wells “If you want to learn how to write humor, get this book!” – NY Times Bestselling Author Darynda Jones THE COMPLETE HUMOR GUIDE FOR NOVELISTS Learning how to add humor to your stories isn’t a bumfuzzle science. After all, humor is a result of imagination, and we fiction authors are imaginative. Of course, […]
Religion and Humour An Introduction

By David Feltmate This timely and lively introduction to exploring the intersection of religion and humour evaluates existing scholarship and methodologies within the field, arguing for a culturally critical approach to the study. Hinged on a qualitative sociological framework, this book asks questions about the construction, presentation, and purpose of humour in religious contexts. It is […]
If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For

by Molly Stillman In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares her unforgettable story of losing her mother, squandering an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years, attempting to launch a career in comedy but ending up on a farm instead, and finding faith, hope, and joy in the middle […]
The Virtue of Playfulness Why Happy People Are Playful

By boomer trujillo This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness. Inspired by Aristotle, the book draws on work from philosophy, classics, history, biology, psychology, and media studies to understand the place of play and playfulness in a good life. Many philosophers have written about play, […]
Unconditionally Mad, Part B – The First Unauthorized History of Mad Magazine

Is he MAD? Mark Arnold, author of If You’re Cracked, You’re Happy, Volumes Won and Too, has done it again with the very first COMPLETE MAD history since the 1990s. He’s UNCONDITIONALLY MAD!!! This two-volume set (Part 1 and Part B) covers the entire 70+ year history of MAD magazine. Part B picks up from Editor Al Feldstein’s retirement in 1984 and […]
In on the Joke: The Ethics of Humor and Comedy (De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor, 4)

Who is morally permitted to tell jokes about Jews? Poles? Women? Only those in the group? Only those who would be punching up? Anyone, since they are just jokes? All of the standard approaches are too broad or too narrow. In on the Joke provides a more sophisticated approach according to which each person possesses “joke capital” […]
Interactional Humor Multimodal Design and Negotiation

The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated? To this end, it offers a panorama of linguistic research on multimodal and interactional humor, based on different theoretical frameworks, corpora, and methodologies. Humor is considered as an activity that is interactionally achieved, regardless of whether the interaction […]
Pendekar Humor, apa itu?
“Knowledge is Power. Knowledge Shared is Power Multiplied” ~ Robert Boyce ~ Dari puluhan acara yang telah dibuat ihik3 baik secara daring atau pun luring, sering tidak pernah kering dari genggaman literatur. Bukannya mau sok ilmiah, akan tetapi supaya harta kami berupa 2000 buku ditambah majalah dan DVD bisa dimaksimalkan penggunaannya. Di sisi lain, luaran […]
Apalah Arti Sebuah (Lelucon) Nama
“To be politically correct, one must be constantly sensitive to the feelings of others. To be a comedian, one frequently has to ignore them.” – Richard Zoglin (1993) Puji Koes Plus terhadap kesuburan negeri ini bukan pengandaian belaka. Tidak hanya kesuburan tanahnya secara harfiah, nyatanya kita setiap hari bisa memanen isu dan polemik juga. Belum […]
Keluguan Kita Menangkap Keindahan Badut
“Besok Om Badut main ke sini lagi, kan?” Pertanyaan Faiz menghentikan langkah kami bertiga sejenak.