Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy by Saul Austerlitz Adult Nonfiction – New Book Shelves Upper Level 791.436 A
Comedy is subjective; not everyone agrees about what's funny. Saul Austerlitz understands this, and arranged his book "Another Fine Mess" accordingly. Each chapter covers a different artist in roughly chronological order from Charlie Chaplin to Judd Apatow. If you never quite "got" one artist's work, skip that chapter and go to the next one. I personally skipped Doris Day and Albert Brooks. Each entry relates the artist's work in some detail, along with an analysis of their appeal. No one will agree with every one of Austerlitz's selections, either in the main chapters, or in the short entries at the back. (John Wayne? Really?) But the resulting argument is half the fun!
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