Funny How?

Funny How?Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works. 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 comedy concentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humor works. Focusing on a dozen or so skits and scenes, Clayton shows precisely how sketch comedy

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as a simple yet spellbinding lens to better understand the complex issue of climate change

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Through an examination of memoirs

clarifies the interplay between art and politics as it has played out

This study reassesses the intrinsic relationship between storage and sociopolitical complexity by combining testimonies on the storage of staples from palatial

previously unseen vista for understanding this Romantic poet's representations of death and grief and significantly reframes the cultural dynamics of the Romantic period in Britain

This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of Britain’s political elites in the debates over Europe

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Yet much 'evidence-based policy' is grounded on poor scientific reasoning and even worse economics