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“Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”―Jimmy Kimmel
From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness―just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’veHeard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit. 15 illustrations
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Jim Holt, a prominent essayist and critic on philosophy, mathematics, and science, is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City.
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Explodes the myth that the high and low brow are more than a couple of inches apart....Seriously funny stuff. -- Colin McGinn, author of The Making of a Philosopher
Fast-moving, idiosyncratic...a stocking-stuffer. -- The New York Times Book Review
Finally, I understand what it is I've been laughing at for all these years. -- Jimmy Kimmel
Holt...takes in so much about the history and philosophy of joke-telling in his concise and amiable conspectus of the subject. -- Joseph Epstein, The Wall Street Journal
Jim Holt manages here to be deadly serious and perfectly hilarious at the same time. -- Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the US
Jim Holt riffs in Stop Me If You've Heard This. -- Vanity Fair
Small, witty, and delightful...a worthy successor to Harry Frankfurt's brilliant On Bullshit. -- Simon Blackburn, The New York Sun
The truth behind the glamour. -- Fran Lebowitz
Viewed through Holt's complex, concise lens, the joke comes off as a contender for humankind's most profound mode of expression. -- Elle
Witty and engaging...This is a very funny tale and it produces some marvelous and unlikely heroes. -- The New York Review of Books
Fast-moving, idiosyncratic...a stocking-stuffer. -- The New York Times Book Review
Finally, I understand what it is I've been laughing at for all these years. -- Jimmy Kimmel
Holt...takes in so much about the history and philosophy of joke-telling in his concise and amiable conspectus of the subject. -- Joseph Epstein, The Wall Street Journal
Jim Holt manages here to be deadly serious and perfectly hilarious at the same time. -- Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the US
Jim Holt riffs in Stop Me If You've Heard This. -- Vanity Fair
Small, witty, and delightful...a worthy successor to Harry Frankfurt's brilliant On Bullshit. -- Simon Blackburn, The New York Sun
The truth behind the glamour. -- Fran Lebowitz
Viewed through Holt's complex, concise lens, the joke comes off as a contender for humankind's most profound mode of expression. -- Elle
Witty and engaging...This is a very funny tale and it produces some marvelous and unlikely heroes. -- The New York Review of Books
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