History of the Joke
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History of the Joke is a two-hour television special documentary film that premiered on February 18, 2008 on History.
This special was hosted by Lewis Black and starred Mitch Fatel, Ed Galvez, George Carlin, Shelley Berman, Jimmy Carr, Jeff Dunham, Steve Byrne, Gallagher, Patton Oswalt, Aisha Tyler, Robin Williams, Brian Posehn, Greg Fitzsimmons, Gina Yashere, George Lopez, Lynne Koplitz, Kathy Griffin, Dave Attell, and Penn & Teller. In the show Lewis Black considers all of the different components of the perfect joke and all types of comedy, including physical comedy and slapstick. The jokes rangered from all types of subect matter: children jokes, race sex, and religion. The show is broken down into thirteen parts: comedy, physical comedy, timing is everything, improv, born funny?, ladies and gentlemen, dirty jokes, taboos, the bomb, hecklers, pain, the truth, and what is laughter? Professor Richard Wiseman is the scientific and psychological source of comedy and talks about his search for the world's funniest joke. The history of comedy from ancient Greek street performers, the masked performers of mid-16th century Italy to possibly the first female comedians from Shakespearean actresses (although there are little to no female actresses in Shakespearean times because all female roles were played by men) in English Restoration were all covered.[1]
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