Hachette India

A Good Bullet: Comedy, Violence and All the Terrible Things That Make Us Laugh

Freddy Syborn

Bullets are violent. Jokes are violent. Can either be used for good? What is 'good'? A Good Bullet will make next to no effort to answer the last question because it's too hard. But it will have a crack at asking why and how sex war history death insecurity hatred and loss - all the good stuff - make people laugh.>

Classification : Reference
Pub Date : AUG 1, 2013
Imprint : Short Books
Page Extent : 288
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9781780721699
Price : INR 699

Freddy Syborn

Freddy Syborn co-writes the record-breaking BBC 3 sitcom Bad Education. He's co-written a Sky Little Cracker contributed sketches to Psychobitches and written jokes for TV shows including Live at the Apollo 8 out of 10 Cats Have I Got News For You and Big Brother's Big Mouth. The Independent called him "one of the stars of this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival" the Scotsman said he was "a truly gifted young theatre maker" and Exeunt magazine credited him with "a reaching intelligent starfishy kind of mind."