Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture

by Ken Jennings

Book Overview

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

From the brilliantly witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings, a history of humor--from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes--that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world.

For millennia of human history, the future belonged to the strong. To the parent who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501100580
• ISBN13: 9781501100581
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"