Laughing Matters
Every so often, one of my essays ends up in a college textbook. It’s a delightful honor, of course. But I’m always just a bit freaked out by the thought of someone writing an essay analyzing one of my essays.
My latest textbook appearance is in Laughing Matters, a “comic rhetoric” textbook by Stanford University’s Marvin Diogenes. It’s a great book, and I’m really proud to have a humor column (actually a satirical music lesson contract between parents and child) included in the “forensic rhetoric” section, along with pieces by Chekhov, Benjamin Franklin, and Ian Frazier.
And happily, it’s NOT a what-not-to-do example.
Tags: Comic Rhetoric, Laughing Matters, Marvin Diogenes, Stanford, Textbooks
Yes, I agree laughing matters.
Do you laught at your own material. I do, and that is why, like you,
I write satire rather than do standup. Red Skeleton, was the last entertaining who could get away at laughing at his own jokes.
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You seem to have a wider range of material and styles-than me.
I am good at one style-which has won awards–but I could not, like you,
then write poetry.
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