Rationale of the Dirty Joke - by G Legman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The long-out-of-print book made famous in the film "The Aristocrats"is back, providing a serious study by the legendary scholar of dirty humor with more than 2,000 jokes and naughty folktales and their historical and socio-analytic significance.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b> Why do people tell dirty jokes?<br> And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny? </b> <p/> G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his <i>Rationale of the Dirty Joke</i> remains the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the subject. <p/> 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 folk texts are authentically transcribed in their innocent and sometimes violent entirety. Legman studies each for its historical and socioanalytic significance, revealing what these jokes mean to the people who tell them and to the people who listen and laugh. <p/> Here -- back in print -- is the definitive text for comedians and humor writers, Freudian scholars and late night television enthusiasts. <i>Rationale of the Dirty Joke</i> will amuse you, offend you, challenge you, and disgust you, all while demonstrating the intelligence and hilarity of the dirty joke.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Like <i>The Brothers Karamazov, </i> only pronounceable, and funny! <p/> -- Carrie Fisher<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>G. Legman</b> started a short-lived Freudian quarterly, Neurotica, in the late 1940s. He wrote many books on the subject of erotica and sexual humor, including <i>The Limerick, The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore, Oragenitalism, </i> and <i>No Laughing Matter: Rationale of the Dirty Joke, Second Series.</i> G. Legman died in 1999 in France
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