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Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture (2018)

por Ken Jennings

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Presents a history of humor, from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter 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 could kill the most animals with sticks and to the child who could survive the winter or the epidemic. When the Industrial Revolution came, masters of business efficiency prospered instead, and after that we placed our hope in scientific visionaries. Today, in a clear sign of evolution totally sliding off the rails, our most coveted trait is not strength or productivity or even innovation, but being funny. Yes, funniness. Consider: presidential candidates now have to prepare funny 'zingers' for debates. Newspaper headlines and church marquees, once fairly staid affairs, must now be 'clever, ' stuffed with puns and winks. Airline safety tutorials--those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning--have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. In Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means--or doesn't--to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python's game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. Entertaining, astounding, and completely head-scratching, Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor."--Jacket.… (mais)
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Самый известный эрудит США, Кен Дженнингз, написал книгу о юморе – “Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Culture”. Кена, автора нескольких очень интересных книг, одну из которых перевели на русский, я видел и слышал лишь один раз (правда живьем на первой олимпиаде знатоков в Афинах в 2016), но там он был свадебным генералом и больше как раз юморил. Его любимая шутка была “Build-a-Title” (названия фильмов, перетекающие друг в друга): A Few Good Men in Black Beauty and the Beastmaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World According to Garp.

Но в этой книге он продемонстрировал всю огневую мощь своей памяти и кругозора. Меня он сразил уже в начале, упомянув, что сарказм от того же корня, что саркома и саркофаг. Про этимологию “иронии” было еще чудеснее. Вообще, история шутки и юмора раскрыта очень широко и разбросана по всей книге, что в основном и заставляло меня не сдаваться, когда попадались очередные американские реалии вроде Ленни Брюса. Иначе бы я лишил себя удовольствия познакомиться со Святым Никто, остроумным произведением, подаренным одному Папе. Надергав цитат из Библии со словом «никто», автор логично предположил, что это не банальное местоимение, а вполне себе реальное существо, достойное поклонения. Еще бы: «Никто не победит Бога» (по латыни «не» не будет), «Никто не может служить двум господам» (то же самое) – вполне себе супергерой.

Есть ли потенциал у книги на русском? Возможно, если вы считаете, что россияне знакомы с большинством упомянутого в приведенной схеме. Схема тут

Признаться, я ожидал чего-то другого, какого-то более серьезного анализа ползучей экспансии юмора и превращения его в опиум для народа «А вот поржи еще над этими забавными песиками, нечего тебе «Он вам не Димон» смотреть». Хотя...кое-какая любопытная информация-таки была дана, типа рост числа шуток в минуту в комедийных тв-шоу за последние десятилетия. Или их качественные изменения: над шуткой Вуди Аллена «Самое эффективное оральное противозачаточное – сказать слово «нет» начинали смеяться через несколько секунд, сейчас почти немедленно.

Делает Дженнигз и прогноз относительно места юмора в жизни общества (наверное, шутливый): "Я могу гарантировать вам, что шутки будут продолжать проникать во все больше и больше мест, где они когда-то были, явно или неофициально, полностью запрещены. Ироничные панегирики и смешные надгробия не за горами. Грядут смешные руководства по эксплуатации устройств, юморные судьи, выносящие смешные решения (из серии ответ царя дебоширу «Передайте ему, что я тоже на него плевал»). Шутки на дорожных знаках. Шутки в законодательстве. Шутки в научных и медицинских исследованиях.”

Отдельно доставило приведенное на английском стихотворение нашего Велимира Хлебникова. По-английский читается с трудом, понимается вообще никак. Впрочем, и от русского оригинала у меня ум за разум быстро зашёл. Им и закончим:

ЗАКЛЯТИЕ СМЕХОМ

О, рассмейтесь, смехачи!
О, засмейтесь, смехачи!
Что смеются смехами, что смеянствуют смеяльно,
О, засмейтесь усмеяльно!
О, рассмешищ надсмеяльных — смех усмейных смехачей!
О, иссмейся рассмеяльно, смех надсмейных смеячей!
Смейево, смейево,
Усмей, осмей, смешики, смешики,
Смеюнчики, смеюнчики.
О, рассмейтесь, смехачи!
О, засмейтесь, смехачи!
  Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 |
I wasn't immediately sold on Jennings' premise but his case for humour proliferation had me be the end. The Chinese Room argument applied to Twitter was particularly stunning. Come for the jokes, get Searle's logic applied to emergent phenomena in social media for free. ( )
  Kavinay | Jan 2, 2023 |
My one star deduction is because I want him to be wrong.... ( )
  ByronDB | May 17, 2022 |
In this book, Ken Jennings explores the way humour has pervaded all aspects of modern life, from politics, to social commentary, to airline safety videos. He also discusses how ideas of what is or isn't funny have evolved over time. The book is well researched and engagingly written. It made me think about why we value a sense of humour so much, and how much emphasis we place on being entertained.

Two small points: there were a lot of pop culture references I didn't get...the author is obviously younger and hipper than I am! And (a complaint I often have) the subtitle "How Comedy Ruined Everything" doesn't reflect what the book is about. Comedy is pervasive, and Mr. Jennings shows us the good and the bad sides of that. ( )
  LynnB | Nov 25, 2020 |
I'm not sure I'm on board with Jennings' more cautionary attitude towards the way comedy is infiltrating every aspect of our society (which isn't to say he's wrong for feeling the way he does). It is a cultural shift with its positive and negative baggage like any other cultural shift, and one that is inherently unsustainable, in my opinion.

That being said I think everyone should read this book, in particular the section about how comedians develop a pseudo-intimate relationship with their audience, so that people can stop being so damn creepy with their favorite podcasters and whatnot. ( )
  hatingongodot | May 3, 2020 |
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Presents a history of humor, from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter 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 could kill the most animals with sticks and to the child who could survive the winter or the epidemic. When the Industrial Revolution came, masters of business efficiency prospered instead, and after that we placed our hope in scientific visionaries. Today, in a clear sign of evolution totally sliding off the rails, our most coveted trait is not strength or productivity or even innovation, but being funny. Yes, funniness. Consider: presidential candidates now have to prepare funny 'zingers' for debates. Newspaper headlines and church marquees, once fairly staid affairs, must now be 'clever, ' stuffed with puns and winks. Airline safety tutorials--those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning--have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. In Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means--or doesn't--to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python's game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. Entertaining, astounding, and completely head-scratching, Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor."--Jacket.

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