Jonathan Levitt's book Contemplating Comedy analyses various aspects of humour
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Have you heard the one about a chess grandmaster writing a book about how to be funny?
Well, it’s no joke – because Ipswich’s Jonathan Levitt has made a checkmate move into writing about humour.
The 57-year-old says his new book, Contemplating Comedy, is “on the surface a compilation of funny lines and little jokes”.
There are plenty of laughs in the 330-page Conrad Press book, including some topical references to the Covid-19 crisis and the likes of Donald Trump.
For those keen to understand a little more about humour, Mr Levitt – who was part of the England chess team which beat Russia 6-4 in Reykjavik in 1990 – unpacks some comic techniques.