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Berkeley Arts & Letters Presents: Michael Krasny / Let There Be Laughter
**Online sales have ended. Tickets will be available at the door.** Beloved radio personality Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since he could say oy vey! In his new book Let There Be Laughter, Krasny pairs the most iconic Jewish jokes with wise and entertaining explanations, illuminating the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs.
With his background as a scholar and public-radio host, Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics, and forms of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery, the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation, the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling, and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish.
Jewish humor is a generational habit, and in Let There Be Laughter there is something for everyone. From the old Jewish greats like Mel Brooks, Jackie Mason, and Joan Rivers to the Sarah Silvermans, Amy Schumers, and Jon Stewarts of today, Let There Be Laughter is as profoundly analytical as it is hilarious, and an absolute pleasure for the chosen and goyim alike.
Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is a scholar and Professor of English and American Literature at San Francisco State University, the host of KQEDs Forum with Michael Krasny, an award winning broadcast journalist, and author of two acclaimed books, Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostics Search. Since 1993 he has been the host of Forum with Michael Krasny, a news and public affairs interview program produced at KQED Radio, the National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco, California.
A book about Jewish jokes thats as funny as the jokes - whats not to love? Andy Borowitz
Why is Jewish the only religion with a type of humor named after it? Because the Jews are Gods chosen people. And God has a sense of humor. Check Genesis 1:27, So God created man in his own image. Now look in the mirror. God is kidding. Michael Krasny explains it all in Let There be Laughter. P.J. O'Rourke
Isnt Michael Krasny the most wonderfully versatile writer? Isnt this book side-splittingly hilarious? Why cant I come for the jokes and then stay for what it all means? Why did it take so long for someone this talented to give us something so funny, meaningful and durable? And why cant a Gentile answer a question (will you blurb my book?) with a question? I loved it. Ken Burns
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2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
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