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You're an award-winning author, as I've said, of rough, grim, reaping, kindled, a matter of will.

You've been long listed for the Leacock Medal for Humor three times and have twice received the Silver Medal from the Independent Book Publishers Awards in addition to the Bronze Medal for Humor from Forward Review and Indies.

You're a finalist for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor.

and the 2021 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize, as well as the 2023 Relit Award for Best Short Fiction and the Northern Lit Award for Fiction.

You write short stories, claim on fiction.

In 1774 the tomb was opened, when End of section 19 Section 20 of Yet Again by Max Beerbohm This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

The Humor of the Public They often tell me that so-and-so has no sense of humor.

Lack of this sense is everywhere held to be a horrid disgrace, nullifying any number of delightful qualities.

Perhaps the most effective means of disparaging an enemy is to lay stress on his integrity, his erudition, his amiability, his courage, the fineness of his head, the grace of his figure, his strength of purpose which has overleaped all obstacles, his goodness to his parents, the kind word that he has for everyone, his musical voice, his freedom from aught that in human nature is base, and then to say what a pity it is that he has no sense of humor.

Hello, and welcome to the New Books Network.

I'm your host, Jean Georges-Earl, and today we'll be discussing Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don't, and Why It Matters by John Charles Simon and Jennelle Donким.

As the title suggests, this is a book about one of the most familiar every day, and yet surprisingly mysterious aspects of human life, laughter.

And what exactly is laughter communicating when it erupts between us? Written in a highly accessible style, Understanding Laughter and Humor offers an ambitious and wide-ranging account of laughter as a social, emotional, cognitive, and evolutionary phenomenon.

Along the way, the book revisits some of the classic theories of laughter and humor, while arguing that none of these quite gives us a full account of what laughter is or what it does.

In their place, Simon and Donким further develop, uh, and articulate their own theory, which we'll be discussing today, that laughter is, at its core, a kind of vocal affirmation of shared vulnerabilities.

Thank you.

Um, so in chapter five, you also then begin to introduce how laughter relates to humor, which I guess is also maybe, you know, sometimes people don't necessarily make that distinction between those two, or they're very easily kind of conflated.