Of all human qualities, humour is perhaps the most puzzling. Why do
audiences laugh at catchphrases but don’t laugh at jokes they
have heard before? Why are words with a K in them generally found
to be funnier? In this probing exploration, William Hartston
interrogates every aspect of the evolution of humour and our
attitudes toward it in hot pursuit of a Grand Unified Theory of
Humour. From comedy in ancient Greece and jokes in ancient Rome, to
laughter in the Bible and the secret of comic delivery, from how
humour changed following the American Civil War, to the way Mark
Twain influenced written comedy in the English-speaking world,
William leaves no stone unturned in his quest to understand what
makes us chuckle.
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