Post by funnybones on Apr 22, 2014 19:13:04 GMT
What a surprisingly interesting book!
The main ideas that I got from it are that laughter is primarily a social activity which probably evolved in humans before language as a way to communicate many different social relationships, and that modern real-world laughter is often preceded by fairly mundane conversation.
So then I think about how many of the comics I find funny have a conversational style. They don't seem to be telling 'Jokes' at all. Sometimes I can't even figure out why I am laughing at them, except maybe 'its not what they said, it is how they said it'
Like in Aziz's Buried Alive special. When he is working the audience members about their engagement and he says: “Lunch?” Me and everyone in the room erupted with laughter. But afterwards when we were recalling it none of us could explain why it was so funny... Except we all were waiting for a big laugh, and Aziz is so funny the way he says stuff....
Great choice for the book club. I'm very curious about what other people think about the book and how it might relate to our craft.
- Cheers, Justin
