Stop me if you've heard this

by Jim Holt

"Having explored humour's history in part one, Holt then delves into its philosophy. Nice jokes, naughty jokes, religious jokes, political jokes, meta-jokes, two-word jokes, jokes about musical instruments, jokes that you missed if you didn't go to a Catholic girls' school - all are fodder for the grand theories of the most brilliant minds of all time"--Cover flap.