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STANDUP GUYS.("Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s")(Book Review)
Anyone can make jokes about books on comedy. Even the grumpy-belletrist-in-a-bow-tie type can tap the dottle out of his pipe long enough to harrumph out the old one about how Mr. Murkle seems to have got comedy down and broken its arm, while the postmodernist professor makes garlicky puns about the subversion inherent in garlicky puns. Everyone feels smug about books on jokes, because we all know that there's no explaining jokes--though perhaps we wouldn't be so smug if we stopped and tried to explain why it so often takes a joke to explain us.
But comedy, like cooking, is a great subject, and should not be avoided just because it is also a hard one. This is ...
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