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Rationale of the dirty joke

By G. Legman

On Humour

By Simon Critchley

Chaucer's humor

By Jean E. Jost

Taking humour seriously

By Jerry Palmer,Jerry Palmer,Palmer, Jerry.

Game of Humor

By Charles Gruner,Charles R. Gruner

Ladies laughing

By Barbara Levy

Linguistic Analysis of Jokes

By Graeme Ritchie

Funny Peculiar

By Mikita Brottman

Language of Humour

By Walter Nash

Mathematics and humor

By John Allen Paulos

The humor of humor

By Evan Esar

Jokes

By Ted Cohen

First Book of Jewish Jokes

By Elliott Oring,Michaela Lang,Anastasiya Astapova,Ilze Akerbergs

Stop Me If You've Heard This

By Jim Holt

Practically Joking

By Moira Marsh

Jokes and Their Relations

By Elliott Oring

Comedy

By Maurice Charney

Good Humor, Bad Taste

By Giselinde Kuipers

Anatomy of Humor

By Arthur Asa Berger

Languages of Humor

By Arie Sover,Paul Bouissac

Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy

By Stephen E. Kidd

Face of Nature

By Garth Tissol

To wit

By Penelope Gilliatt

Sweet madness

By William F. Fry