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Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture―and the Magic That Makes It Work

Maybe someday

45

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

73/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Jesse David Fox

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Date:

November 7, 2023

A heartfelt chronicle of comedy's boom-and its magic.

What The Reviewers Say

Rich Juzwiak,
The New York Times Book Review
Keen insight...energetic and wise.
David Yaffe,
Air Mail
The result of what happens when everyone thinks comedy is important, even as fewer things can be funny..
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker
Fox genuinely seems to have zero historical sense of comedy.
James Parker,
The Atlantic
Compendious, deeply considered, provoking, and rather dizzying..