It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It

It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It
Author: Scott Adams
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004-10
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780740746581

Jargon-spewing corporate zombies. The sociopath who checks voice mail on his speaker phone. The fascist information systems guy. The sadistic human resources director. The technophobic vice president. The power-mad executive assistant. The pursed-lip sycophant. The big stubborn dumb guy. They're Dilbert's coworkers, and chances are they're yours, too. If you know them, work with them, or dialogue with them about leveraging synergies to maximize shareholder value, then you'll recognize this comic strip as a day at the office, only funnier.

That's Not Funny!

That's Not Funny!
Author: Jeanne Willis
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1467744239

The most action-packed banana-peel gag ever! What happens when mischievous Hyena puts a banana peel on unsuspecting Giraffe's path? A lot of hilarious chaos, it turns out. Kids will laugh and laugh at the crazy chain of events Hyena's practical joke sets in motion. In the end though, the joke's on Hyena, and readers will learn the smelly consequences of laughing too much at others' misfortunes.

If It's Not Funny It's Art

If It's Not Funny It's Art
Author: Demetri Martin
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1538729059

New York Times bestselling author of This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, Demetri Martin returns with another laugh-out-loud collection of hilarious drawings. If It's Not Funny It's Art Packed with hundreds of new illustrations and one-liners, If It's Not Funny It's Art is a peek into the ingenious mind of author/comedian/filmmaker Demetri Martin. Exploring the meaning of art, life, death, ennui and the elegant fart joke with a sensibility all its own, this collection is a perfect gift for word lovers, art appreciators and fans of Demetri's unique brand of comedy. Sure to make you laugh out loud, and if it doesn't, then you know it's art.

On Humour

On Humour
Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135199035

This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

It's Kind of a Funny Story
Author: Ned Vizzini
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2010-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1423141083

Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.

Inside Jokes

Inside Jokes
Author: Matthew M. Hurley
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 026201582X

Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.

That's Not Funny

That's Not Funny
Author: Matt Sienkiewicz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2024-03-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520402960

A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx take readers––particularly self-described liberals––on a tour of contemporary conservative comedy and the "right-wing comedy complex." In That's Not Funny, "complex" takes on an important double meaning. On the one hand, liberals have developed a social-psychological complex—it feels difficult, even dangerous, to acknowledge that their political opposition can produce comedy. At the same time, the right has been slowly building up a comedy-industrial complex, utilizing the humorous, irony-laden media strategies of liberals such as Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver to garner audiences and supporters. Right-wing comedy has been hiding in plain sight, finding its way into mainstream conservative media through figures ranging from Fox News's Greg Gutfeld to libertarian podcasters like Joe Rogan. That's Not Funny taps interviews with conservative comedians and observations of them in action to guide readers through media history, text, and technique. You will find many of these comedians utterly appalling, some surprisingly funny, and others just plain weird. They are all, however, culturally and politically relevant—the American right is attempting to seize spaces of comedy and irony previously held firmly by the left. You might not like this brand of humor, but you can't ignore it.

What Would Wally Do?

What Would Wally Do?
Author: Scott Adams
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0740757695

The twenty-seventh collection of comics about the work-place antics of Dilbert and his co-workers, with special emphasis on Wally, whose poor performance and lack of respect usually gets him a raise rather than punishment.

How to Write Funny

How to Write Funny
Author: John Kachuba
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2001-07-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

A discussion of the basics and genres of the comic point of view includes essays and interviews with such authors as Dave Barry, Sherman Alexie, and Melissa Bank.

The Humor Code

The Humor Code
Author: Peter McGraw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451665423

Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist travel the globe to discover the secret behind what makes things funny, questioning countless experts, including Louis C.K., along the way.