BOOKS Dying for a laugh | Morning Star
by Gilbert Ramsay and Moutaz Alkheder (Hurst, £25) IT’S a funny one, humour. Where it comes from. What it releases. Is it cruel? And it’s hard to nail down, too. A scientific study could be like analysing poetry or pulling a flower apart by its petals. Yet in politics, satire and comedy are powerful tools, not just to cut through crap and hypocrisy but to mock and therefore render impotent — Mel Brookes ridiculed the Nazis in The Producers and Monty Python the crucifixion in The Life of Brian. In this book, Gilbert Ramsay and Moutaz Alkheder claim that global jihadism is no exce...
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