That was a fascinating read. Full Stop. It was informative, without loosing itself into too much detail and it gave a really good inside to comedy and also a good overview on the history of 'making people laugh', theories on why we laugh at all, etc.It is questionable if it had needed quite as much one-liners (not so much in the text itself, which is written humoruous without overdoing it) but there's one at the bottom of every page and you get 3-4 pages of jokes of varying quality between the chapters...but after all I'm not rating a joke-book but one about jokes and as that it was very good.