{"id":138,"date":"2012-07-27T19:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2012-07-27T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:04:54","slug":"funnyman-david-misch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Funnyman David Misch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funnyman David Misch gave a presentation at Book Soup in West Hollywood, discussing his new book, called \u201cFunny \u2013 The Book\u201d.\u00a0 Armed with video clips of some of the funniest moments of television and movie history, he shows how humor operates, starting with the apes and monkeys (hey, they laugh, too), and dissecting the mechanisms of the human brain and psyche to find out why we laugh.\u00a0 What do we think is funny?\u00a0 And why do we laugh at things that on the surface, are not funny at all?\u00a0 His presentation has photos, quotes, studies, and clips from Hollywood films, an entertaining peek into the world of humor and how the average human responds to it.\u00a0 So sit back, get a glass of wine, light up a cigar, and watch the video.\u00a0 <a title=\"Funny - The Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S-01PmQV_S0&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view the presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Funny-the-Book.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139\" title=\"Funny the Book\" src=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Funny-the-Book-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Funny-the-Book-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Funny-the-Book.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>Click here on <a title=\"Book Soup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booksoup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Soup<\/a> to go to their website to buy the book, or get on over there in person to pick up a signed copy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funnyman David Misch gave a presentation at Book Soup in West Hollywood, discussing his new book, called \u201cFunny \u2013 The Book\u201d.\u00a0 Armed with video clips of some of the funniest moments of television and movie history, he shows how humor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}