This event is at 5:00PM PT/8:00PM ET

From Henny Youngman’s one-liners to the epically filthy “The Aristocrats,” every joke ever told shows how comedy works, using the same basic components as all art forms: tension-and-resolution, pattern recognition, misdirection and surprise. For jokes, the big difference is they’re small, which makes them easier to pull apart, to see what makes them tick and why they make us laugh.

Topics covered in this multimedia presentation include the Rule of 3 (Why are things funnier in threes? Really, why? I mean, why?); is humor inherently hostile?; how jokes are related to Japanese haiku poetry; why jokes make you smarter; dirty jokes that aren’t dirty; and the Official Funniest Joke In The World.

David Misch is a former stand-up comedian, screenwriter (“Mork and Mindy,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The Muppets Take Manhattan”), author (“Funny: The Book,” “A Beginner’s Guide To Corruption”), teacher (his own courses on comedy at USC and musical satire at UCLA) and lecturer at the Smithsonian, 92Y (NYC), Grammy Museum, Yale, Columbia, Oxford University, Trinity College Dublin, Cinestudio Paris, University of Sydney, VIEW Cinema (Torino, Italy) and San Miguel (Mexico) Writers’ conferences, Raindance Film Festival (London), Austin Film Festival, American Film Institute. More at davidmisch.com.

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