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Author: Judith Hendra Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap ISBN: 9780448164298 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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An anthology including nonsense verses, short stories, nursery tales and rhymes, poems, and tongue twisters on such topics as animals, edibles, naughty children and families.
Author: Michael Krasny Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062422057 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 202
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From the host of NPR affiliate’s Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture. Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he knows more of them than anyone on the planet. He certainly states his case in this wise, enlightening, and hilarious book that not only collects the best of Jewish humor passed down from generation to generation, but explains the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs. "What’s Jewish Alzheimer’s?" "You forget everything but the grudges." "You must be so proud. Your daughter is the President of the United States!" "Yes. But her brother is a doctor!" "Isn’t Jewish humor masochistic?" "No. And if I hear that one more time I am going to kill myself." With his background as a scholar and public-radio host, Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics, and form of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery, the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation, the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling, and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish. Borrowing from traditional humor and such Jewish comedy legends as Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer, Let There Be Laughter is an absolute pleasure for the chosen and goyim alike.
Author: Pi-ching Hsu Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900429323X Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 370
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The Treasury of Laughs is a treasure house for students of literature, psycholinguistics, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Feng Menglong systematically collected and edited 700-odd humourous skits that presented the entire spectrum of traditional Chinese jokes, and wrote commentaries of great philosophical insight. The anthology offers satirical caricatures of human follies from the cradle to the grave and reveals tension in all sectors of human societies and institutions. Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the complete Ming Chinese original with meticulous editorial work, in modern punctuated typesetting, and provides the only complete English translation available, with useful footnotes on word plays, literary allusions, and historical background. Readers should find the introductory essays on the connections between humour and emotions/states of mind particularly illuminating.
Author: Morris Bishop Publisher: New York : Coward-McCann ISBN: Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 864
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(Continued) Includes writings by Agnes Hunt, E.F. Benson, Norman Douglas, Ernest Bramah, Stephen Leacock, Saki, Hilaire Belloc, Max Beerbohm, Harry Graham, G.K. Chesterton, Maurice Baring, Lord Dunsany, A.E. Coppard, Robert Lynd, A. Neil Lyons, Adrian Porter, P.G. Wodehouse, Katherine Mansfield, A.P. Herbert, E. Delafield, Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, F.L. Lucas, D.B. Wyndham Lewis, Bruce Marshall, James Laver, Noel Coward, Jan Struther, John Collier, Roy Campbell, Stella Gibbons, Patrick Barrington, Evelyn Waugh, Eric Knight, William Plomer, T.H. White, John Betjeman, Peter Fleming, R.A.A. Robertson, Nathaniel Gubbins, Daniel Pettiward, Angela Milne, Angela Thirkell, Eliot Crawshay-Williams.
Author: Jacob Morton Braude Publisher: Prentice Hall Press ISBN: 9780130936677 Category : American wit and humor Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book is an instant source of over 1,000 carefully chosen stories, anecdotes, and jokes you can use to add spice, humor, and emotion to your next speech or presentation.
Author: Isaac Asimov
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