Publisher's Synopsis
Why do we find certain people and certain situations funny? Why do we laugh? Why do we pay people to make us laugh? In short, what is humour for?;These are some of the questions dealt with in this book, which is based on a series of lectures given under the Presidency of Dr Jonathan Miller at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.;It aims to present a serious but amusing look at humour by scientists and scholars, cartoonists and comedians.
