Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Ripped from the pages of his award-eligible “Funny: The Book,” David Misch presents a some-holds-barred survey of absolutely everything funny that’s ever happened. Beginning in pre-history with the mythological Trickster, this multimedia presentation looks at comedy from Ancient Greece to yesterday morning, from court jesters to Groucho, Plato & Aristotle to Key & Peele. With stops along the way for commedia dell’arte, a French fartist, and how comedy killed Abraham Lincoln, we’ll look at what comedy is, where it comes from and where it’s going (oddly enough, Philadelphia).