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Old joke:
Two professors chatting.
First Professor: I say, Rodney, have you read Derrida’s treatise on grammatology?
Second Professor: Read it? I haven’t even taught it!
In The Art of Laughter, which I reviewed three posts ago, Jos Houben tells you what’s funny, performs something to illustrate his theme, and then we do indeed laugh. All pretty straightforward. But there’s another kind of physical comedy lecture-demo featuring a less trustworthy narrator, where there’s a disconnect between lecture and demo, between our host’s pretentious words and silly actions.
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My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin