![]() That’s all pretty pretentious, but then, aren’t books on the whole a bit much? All high and mighty with their printed words on paper, bound between two thicker pieces of paper? Here then is a record of our times, via the best comic minds of our current moment. These books preserve and legitimize humor, they maintain a permanent record of whatever people are upset about or reacting to during a certain era, and add to the general discourse. In that regard, comedy as a genre has always been ephemeral, but that’s where comedy books come in. Humor helps us comment on the world around us, make fun of that which needs to be made fun of, and process an increasingly absurd world that was actually always nonsense. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos: Abrams Image, McSweeney’s, Simon & Schuster, Stone Soup, NYU PressĬomedy is often reactive, historically and in practice. ![]()
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