Darn it. And I was going to save my money so I could buy "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics" by J.S. Bell for $35. Now I might have to cut into that and fork over $10 for this comedy manual.

I believe that the title of the book is referring to the following quote: "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." E.B. White

(This quote gets attributed to everyone...Mark Twain, Mel Brooks...but the consensus seems to be that it was E.B. White's quote.)

There's also been a long running comedy blog called http://www.dead-frog.com/

AND, Mike Sacks' PREVIOUS book of interviews with comedy writers, "And Here's The Kicker" is also quite good.