Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor Groucho Marx asserted is ampampquotreason gone mad.ampampquot For Walter Benjamin laughter was ampampamp8220the most revolutionary emotion.ampampamp8221 In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the hellscape we call ampampamp8220workampampamp8221 what does it mean to take comedy seriouslyand to turn it against workBoth philosophically brilliant and deeply personal Comedy Against Work demonstrates how laughing about work can puncture the pretensions of tyrannical bosses while uniting us around a commitment to radically new ways of making the world together. At the same time LaneMcKinley exposes a war at the heart of contemporary comedy between those who see comedy as a weapon for punching down and those whose laughter points to social transformation.