Rationale of the Dirty Joke
An Analysis of Sexual Humor
- Paperback
816 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2006
Summary
Why do people tell dirty jokes? And what is it about a joke’s dirtiness that makes it funny?
G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his Rationale of the Dirty Joke remains the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the subject.
More than two thousand jokes and folktales are presented, covering such topics as The Female Fool, The Fortunate Fart, Mutual Mismatching, and The Sex Machine. These…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743292528 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743292529 |
| Author: | G. Legman |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 46mm |
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“LikeThe Brothers Karamazov,only pronounceable, and funny!”– Carrie Fisher
“Like The Brothers Karamazov, only pronounceable, and funny!” – Carrie Fisher
About The Author
G. Legman
G. Legman started a short-lived Freudian quarterly, Neurotica, in the late 1940s. He wrote many books on the subject of erotica and sexual humor, including The Limerick, The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore, Oragenitalism, and No Laughing Matter: Rationale of the Dirty Joke, Second Series. G. Legman died in 1999 in France.
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