Chapter 1
     Stevie Ray's Pyramid of Comedy

Part I
COMEDY DISSECTED

Chapter 2
     Physical Comedy
Chapter 3
     Obscenity and Profanity
Chapter 4
     Storyline
Chapter 5
     Language
Chapter 6
     Imitation
Chapter 7
     Character Contradiction
Chapter 8
     Satire

Part II
THE BODY AND
THE BRAIN OF LAUGHING

Chapter 9
     The Physiology of Laughter
Chapter 10
     The Conditions of Laughter
Chapter 11
     The Laws of Laughter

Chapter 12
     Reward or Reprimand
Chapter 13
     Comedy: High and Low
Chapter 14
     Gender and Laughter

Part III
MODERN COMEDY

Chapter 15
     Anatomy of a Joke
Chapter 16
     The Culture of Comedy
Chapter 17
     What are they laughing at over there?

Part IV
WHAT NOW?

Chapter 18
     Be funnier
Chapter 19
     What's Next in Comedy?

Suggested Bathroom reading

Index