{"id":254,"date":"2012-10-24T15:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-11-30T21:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T21:24:19","slug":"what-are-you-laughing-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Laughing At?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=258\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-258\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-258\" title=\"dan_o_shannon\" src=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dan_o_shannon1-116x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dan_o_shannon1-116x150.jpg 116w, http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dan_o_shannon1-233x300.jpg 233w, http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dan_o_shannon1.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dan O&#8217;Shannon hits the turf at Skylight Books in Hollywood and gives an excellent slide show that goes deeply into the mechanics of humor.\u00a0 What is funny?\u00a0 Why is a joke or bit funny one time and not another?\u00a0 What makes the comedic event?\u00a0 A television writer on many of the greatest comedy shows like Cheers, Dan knows humor and his new book is a\u00a0 very detailed study of humor and comedy, not a collection of jokes.\u00a0 This is serious study for anyone who wants to approach the subject of writing for movies, television, or even for stand-up acts.\u00a0 Check out the event:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngmf5i9sdDg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Skylight Books still has some signed copies of the book, click here:\u00a0<a title=\"Skylight Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skylightbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Buy Book<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=259\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-259\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-259\" title=\"Book What are you laughing at\" src=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Book-What-are-you-laughing-at2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Book-What-are-you-laughing-at2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Book-What-are-you-laughing-at2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan O&#8217;Shannon hits the turf at Skylight Books in Hollywood and gives an excellent slide show that goes deeply into the mechanics of humor.\u00a0 What is funny?\u00a0 Why is a joke or bit funny one time and not another?\u00a0 What &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=254\">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":[19,20],"tags":[71,72,70,8,73,74,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}