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Riddles & More Riddles (Beginner Books(R))

Bennett Cerf

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Bad choice 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Riddles & More Riddles (Beginner Books(R))

I would not recommend this book, I think I could written a better riddle book for children

Editorial Review:

"Why do birds fly south?"
"Because it is too far to walk."

Riddles and More Riddles! contains funny, laugh-out-loud riddles that kids will love to read and retell over and over again!

The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage)

McSweeney's

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Editorial Review:

As John Hodgman says in this book's introduction, “We all know that books are funny. First, they are made of paste and cloth, which is funny, as is the fact that people still buy and read them.” With that in mind, the McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes collects the best book-related humor from the humor-laden archives of McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Open it and be regaled by such sketches, lists, letters, and spoofs as:

Postcards from James Joyce to his Brother Stan
Winnie-the-Pooh is My Coworker
Ikea Product or Lord of the Rings Character?
Popular Children's Fairy Tales Reimagined Using Members of My Family
The Very Unauthorized Biography of Steven Seagal
Chuck Norris Erotica
John Updike, Television Writer
Jane Eyre Runs for President
Cormac McCarthy Writes to the Editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican
Holden Caulfield Gives the Commencement Speech to a High School
Letters from Odysseus's College Roommate

And many dozens more.

The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker

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Total reviews: 74 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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All 68,647 cartoons ever published in The New Yorker have been gathered together for the first time in THE COMPLETE CARTOONS OF THE NEW YORKER, a lavish 656-page hardcover book that includes two browsable CDs. It’s a groundbreaking collection and a must-have for all fans of the New Yorker’s unique blend of laugh-out-loud humor and literate social commentary.

Organized by decade and introduced by some of the magazine's most esteemed writers, the book showcases such talented artists as Peter Arno, George Price, and the ghoulish Charles Addams; perennial favorites Roz Chast, George Booth, and Jack Ziegler; as well as such hot, young cartoonists as "King of the Hill" writer Alex Gregory and "Six Feet Under" producer Bruce Eric Kaplan.

An entertaining and one-of-a-kind collection, THE COMPLETE CARTOONS OF THE NEW YORKER offers devotees and new fans alike a fascinating perspective on American life and art over the past 80 years, as depicted by the talented pens and singular perspectives of hundreds of gifted humorists.

Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie Home Companion)

Garrison Keillor

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

The best Prairie Home shows of every year - you just have to laugh 5 out of 5 stars.
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I got a cassette tape of the first PHC joke show years ago and just about wore it out from playing it to keep me alert and upbeat on road trips. Now I found this compilation on 4 CDs and I'm laughing more than ever. Sure, there are sophomoric jokes, 3rd grade jokes, puns, groaners and old chestnuts you've heard before, but somehow they all work when presented by Garrison, Roy Blount, Paula Poundstone and the rest. I love it!

Have the best road trips ever! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is the best way I know to get through a long road trip laughing. It will also take your mind off your worries, because you have to really pay attention to keep up with the rapid fire delivery style and you can't think about much else at the same time. This has become a classic in our home, and a great gift for everyone who says, "I have to have that for myself!"

This is great stuff 5 out of 5 stars.
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The four CDs in this collection are great entertainment, albeit a bit ribald, from Garrison Keilor's NPR radio shows. I've bought several copies for friends and even sent a couple of copies to our troops in the mid-east. My son says it helped boost morale when he was there. Avoid it if you're easily offended, but great fun for the rest of us.

Editorial Review:

Includes the complete Pretty Good Jokes, Few More Pretty Good Jokes, and New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes.

Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor

Isaac Asimov

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Jokes with a purpose and a lack of meanness 4 out of 5 stars.
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In an age where humor is often laced with profanity or based on the ridicule of others, it is very pleasant to find a collection that is largely clean and often cerebral. This book contains a recollection of Isaac Asimov's favorite jokes along with instructions on how to deliver them. While Asimov is well-known as a prolific author, he was also a very funny man, possessing a sense of comedic timing that helped him earn hefty fees as a speaker.
While the jokes are good, it is clear that many of them would have to be delivered in the right manner to be funny. As you read Asimov's commentary, it is not difficult to imagine someone telling the story to maximum effect. Therefore, the book could also be used as a source for material as well as a primer on how to deliver an ice-breaking joke at the start of a public speech.
Isaac Asimov was a very talented man, capable of writing well about anything. His sense of humor was highly developed, something that is obvious from this book. I enjoyed it immensely and have occasionally used some of the jokes in my classes

Editorial Review:

640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man.

211 Things a Clever Girl Can Do

Bunty Cutler

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Witty, Entertaining and Oddly Useful 5 out of 5 stars.
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I picked this up on impulse for poolside reading. Very, very witty. Laugh-out-loud funny at times and remarkably useful, albeit odd, advice. The author opens each discussion topic with a humourous, slightly sarcastic and very cheeky personal story or comment about how she came to know how to do that specific task.

The surprising fact is that despite the whimsical and random nature of the advice, it is really a good book to have on hand. A modern, comic version of "Ask Heloise".

There is a chapter on saving/fixing meals gone bad, changing a tire in clothes you can't get dirty, bluffing your way through musical history, digging a latrine in the wilderness, surviving a plane crash, and a fatally funny approach to handling telemarketers.

Other gems include: how meet your ex's new girlfriend, informing colleagues they smell bad, walking on stilts, undressing a man, catch a cheater, bellydancing for beginners, climbing stairs in very high heels, mixing cocktails, riding an ostrich, cut ahead of a line to the bathroom and my favorite: how to pretend you are still at work while you are at a bar.


I enjoyed this so much I bought copies and sent them as gifts to my best friends.

Editorial Review:

Anything boys can do, girls can do better.

The hysterical, cheeky, female counterpart to the smash hit 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do.

If you’ve ever wanted to walk on stilts, make sloe gin, ride an ostrich, or forecast the weather like your grandmother used to, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.

This surprisingly handy and delightfully amusing guide includes instructions for:

EVERYDAY SURVIVAL SKILLS:
How to manage an umbrella in the wind, escape a swarm of vicious bees, spot a love rat, get out of a cab without exposing yourself, and make a little black dress out of a garbage bag.

HANDY HOUSEHOLD ADVICE:
Learn 17 uses for spare fishnet stockings, how to remove any stain, rescue a meal that’s gone wrong, and enforce toilet seat procedure in a shared dwelling place.

TOOLS FOR THE HOBBYIST IN THE KNOW:
How to groom a horse, read tea leaves, force a cucumber, and bellydance.

Garfield Fat Cat Three Pack Volume VI (Garfield Fat Cat Three Pack)

Jim Davis

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This deal is great!! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I have read tons of GARFIELD book, GARFIELD comic strips, and owns tons of GARFIELD things, but out of all the books i have read these three are my favorites and for such a great price its irresistible!!!!

Good Buy 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is for Old school Garfield fans.New school fan will not understand this book.Its funny and not filled with complicated words like abstanent or interitual.Its Great.

This is my favorite book 5 out of 5 stars.
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I like Garfield because he is funny!
Garfield is the only comic strip I read.
I especially like the " Fat Cat 3 Pack"s 'cause there are these little
"Funnies" between the chapters. Reading Garfield comics also exercises
your vocabulary skills. My favorite part of each pack is when Garfield celebrates Christmas.

Editorial Review:

In this collection we meet Garfield, the cat who's elevated eating and sleeping to an art. So whether he's squashing spiders, stalking a herd of wild doughnuts, or snoozing through a Monday, Garfield always brings a sense of fun to the proceedings.

Laughter, The Best Medicine II

Editors of Reader's Digest

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Laughing all the way 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I have always been a fan of the Reader's Digest, particularly their humor sections. This pulls together the best of their offerings over the years, and it's a great read for anyone who likes to laugh.

Cheerful 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This was a gift for a person in the hospital and preparing for a long haul to get better. It was the best gift you can give as, no matter how much you do not want to laugh, you laugh just reading it. Remember, Laughter really is the Best Medicine.

Laughter IS the Best Medicine ! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book is a large collection of excellent humor.
Need a laugh? ...
Get this book ... you won't be sorry.
This is just one more winner for Reader's Digest!

Giggles.... 4 out of 5 stars.
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The book is pretty cute. Its filled with three sentence stories from people who have experienced funny things in life.

It does have a couple of pages with full page funny stories. It's great to read on the subway or in a waiting room.

I was expecting to be rolling on the floor laughing my butt off, but this wasn't the case. Only giggles. Stories I could probably share with a friend, co-worker, even a boss to get a "ha" or a "Smile"

Basically, it's just a book to kill some time, no matter where you left off.

The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

Robert Byrne

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Enjoyable conversation piece type book 4 out of 5 stars.
18 of 19 people found this review helpful.

Maybe 2,548 quotes but not that many different quotes. The book is a combination of his previous four books. They are placed one after the other and bound together as one book. The problem is that the books have not been culled of repeats. So, many quotes show up in all four books and therefore show up four times in this book.
I will have to say that it contains lots of quotes that I have not seen anywhere else and it is an enjoyable read. Each of the four books is organized into logical sections and related quotes in each section.
When you have ten minutes of time to kill it is easy to pick up and read a few passages and then put it down. It is an interesting read and is well worth the price even with the repeats.

Editorial Review:

Drawing from diverse personages -- Goethe to Churchill to Woody Allen -- Robert Byrne has mined a collection of wit and wisdom that deserves a special place on every humor lover's bookshelf. These unique, witty, and outrageous quotations, previously published in four separate volumes, are now gathered together in a seemingly limitless trove of pithy and often irreverent one-liners, retorts, put-downs, jokes, and last words that cover every conceivable subject and will appeal to every taste. Highlights include:

"Start every day with a smile and get it over with." -- W. C. Fields

"Men read maps better than women because only men understand that an inch canequal a hundred miles." -- Roseanne Barr

"Happiness is having a large loving family in another city." -- George Burns

The Big Book of Jewish Humor

William Novak, Moshe Waldoks

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Big Book Of Jewish Humor 4 out of 5 stars.
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Lots for the money. A few of the long stories I couldn't really relate to, being a thorough goy.

Book of Humor 3 out of 5 stars.
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I liked the book; I loved the price. It was used but in very good condition.

You don't have to be Jewish! 5 out of 5 stars.
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For anyone exposed to American TV and movies (which I have been since the 50's) this is entertainment mother's milk. We've all become a little Jewish (comedically speaking) and I, at least, am decidedly better for it.

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Two rival businessmen meet in the Warsaw train station. "Where are you going?" says the first man.

"To Minsk," says the second.

"To Minsk, eh? What a nerve you have! I know you're telling me you're going to Minsk because you want me to think that you're really going to Pinsk. But it so happens that I know you really are going to Minsk. So why are you lying to me?"

Four men are walking in the desert.

The German says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have a beer."

The Italian says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have wine."

The Mexican says, "I'm tired and thirsty.

I must have tequila."

The Jew says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have diabetes."