Why Is That So Funny?: A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy

This unique exploration of the principles and practice of physical comedy starts with a discussion of the various types of laughter that can be provoked by performance. It then presents graduated sequences of over a hundred games and exercises devised to demonstrate and investigate the whole range of comic possibilities open to a performer. The result is an intensely practical and thoroughly stimulating investigation of how comedy works in physical terms.

John Wright is Research Fellow in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia, and author of The Ethics of Economic Rationalism (2002) and Where Did Fair Go?: On the Social and Moral Cost of Growing Inequality (2014).