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• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: A Brief, Highly Selective, and Somewhat Fallacious History of Humor and Joke Telling
• Chapter 2: How Do You Make Funny? So, What’s a Joke?
• Chapter 3: Comedy and Coping with Reality
• Chapter 4: Dirty Jokes, Tasteless Jokes, Ethnic Jokes
• Chapter 5: A Conversation with a Colleague about Humor and Ethics
• Chapter 6: Philogagging: Humor in the Classroom and Beyond
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Suggested Readings/Humor and Comedy
• About the Author