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Funny How?: Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor (Horizons of Cinema),Used
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What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative development make it comedyconcentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humor works. Focusing on a dozen or so skits and scenes, Clayton shows precisely how sketch comedy appeals to the funny bone and engages our philosophical imagination. He suggests that since humor is about persuading an audience to laugh, it can be understood as a form of rhetoric. Through vivid, highly readable analyses of individual sketches, Clayton illustrates that Aristotle's three forms of appeallogos, the appeal to reason; ethos, the appeal to communality; and pathos, the appeal to emotioncan form the basis for illuminating the inner workings of humor. Drawing on both popular and lesserknown examples from the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhereMonty Python's Flying Circus, Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, Airplane!, and Smack the PonyClayton reveals the techniques and resonances of humor.
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