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Humor in Uniform

Humor in Uniform
Author: Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1606525875

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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA


A Humor Reader: Short Stories From New Voices

A Humor Reader: Short Stories From New Voices
Author: R. L. Saunders
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0359065953

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If laughter is the best medicine, then reading humorous short stories should be the best practice to maintain your health. These three authors with their six stories have written stories that both poke fun at the sacrosanct and also skewer them for dissection as both pompous and ripe. From the ranks of Voltaire, Twain, and Vonnegut, these new voices have something to say about how our current culture and what they consider serious. You may find yourself irritated, incensed, or having a laugh outloud moment as you read along into the imaginative worlds these authors create. You may find yourself expecting to see someone just waiting in the shadows for you to get the punchline - expect that author's spirit as you read their works. PS. You have their permission to roll on the floor with delight, in private, of course... Get Your Copy Now.


The Random House Book of Humor for Children

The Random House Book of Humor for Children
Author: Pamela Pollack
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988
Genre: Children's stories, American
ISBN: 9780394880495

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A humor collection for middle graders composed of thirty-four prose selections--short stories and chunks from novels.


Humor

Humor
Author: Kathleen Volk Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: American wit and humor
ISBN: 9780199362684

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Read. Write. Oxford. From Jerry Seinfeld's legendary standup to Kristen Wiig's sidesplitting impersonations, Humor: A Reader for Writers explores the key patterns and features within numerous comedic sources in order to show how jokes work. This survey looks at comedy in a variety of genres including popular media, academic essays, personal narratives, fiction, and poetry. Developed for the freshman composition course, Humor: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in discussions about humor. Humor: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.


The Best of Reader's Digest

The Best of Reader's Digest
Author: Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher: Trusted Media Brands
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781621454724

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More than two dozen timeless favorites from the Reader’s Digest archives. From everyday heroes to larger-than-life characters, small moments to historic events, the unforgettable stories in Reader's Digest come alive as never before in this keepsake book. Our editors have combed the archives for the narratives—sometimes funny, often poignant, always inspirational—that still strike deep chords today, such as: The miracle of the old letter that led to a couple being reunited after nearly 60 years apart The heroic actions of a North Carolina woman and her Shepherd, Gandalf, who found a lost Boy Scout in the woods during their first search-and-rescue job The tragic account of the Oklahoma City bombing The hilarious reality of a husband and wife who leave the city for farm life and find it’s not quite what they dreamed The sweet story of the grandfather who helped his grandson “grow” the biggest watermelon In addition, the book includes bonus material never published in the magazine plus stunning photographs, laugh-out-loud jokes and cartoons, and true stories from readers like you.


The Humor of Humor

The Humor of Humor
Author: Evan Esar
Publisher: Transaction Pub
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781412806169

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The Humor of Humor is much more than a pleasurable experience to read. By turns hilarious and illuminating, it is a revolutionary contribution, for beneath its endless fun and wit lays a new approach to comedy. The author compresses the vast panorama of the subject into a few basic building blocks of humor. As one turns these pages, the art, science, and history of popular comedy take shape before the readers' eyes in an entirely new way. This edition is graced by a new introduction by Arthur Burger, the dean of humor studies. The reader will be fascinated by Esar's achievement. He invites laughing at these stories and quips, many of them classics that have delighted mankind for thousands of years. Esar tells us how wisecracks, riddles, jokes, and other types of comedy arise, develop, and disappear. He shows how the chain, the round, the reversible, and other techniques persist in ever-changing guise for centuries and why they are still as fresh today as the latest gag. These and other facts about wit and humor are interspersed with bright anecdotes. The reader will be delighted by the infinite varieties and practices of humor. Esar's familiarity with international comedy gives substance to his claim that Europe is ahead of us in promoting the study of popular humor despite our preeminence in jocular variety and originality. America publishes more humorous books, supports more joke smiths, and has a larger audience for comedy than any other country in the world. Yet, unlike other lands, we have no public library of comic literature, no national society of humorists, and no professor of humor in any university.


The Humorous Speaker

The Humorous Speaker
Author: Paul Martin Pearson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1909
Genre: Humorous recitations
ISBN:

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Lotsa Laughs

Lotsa Laughs
Author: Ben Sheldon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 149693637X

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LOTSA LAUGHS is a book of jokes and hilarious observations, which Ben Sheldon had recorded in his note books, over several years. Its a very funny collection of mostly one- or two-liners. Each one of them was original or independently conceived at the time of recording and dating in the authors note books. References to real known personalities are not necessarily true, but is done in parody, within protected free speech on satire. There are seven sections to the book, labeled Chapters, in the Index. Each chapter is aimed at the reader who would enjoy predominantly that kind of humor. For instance, one may laugh at the unique observations in politics, but pass on to another friend or family member some funny aspects of different faiths or innocent, lighthearted takeoffs on ethnicity. A prudish reader may want to save the chapter on bedroom humor for an unblushing neighbor. In any case, said bedroom chapter is written in good taste, with no pornography. The eclectic, broad-minded reader will, of course, enjoy all the levels of humor in this unique joke book, Lotsa Laughs. For those who love the creative use of words in different unexpected contexts, there is a chapter on Tongue Twisters. Another chapter is about Fun with Words. All the humor in Lotsa Laughs is innocent and harmless fun at ourselves and our social, political and religious mores. It is meant to laugh WITH and NOT AT the subjects of humor. Lotsa Laughs would also make a good reference book for speakers seeking an attention-getting funny opening remark for their speech. A future Henny Youngman may find the one-liners in Lotsa Laughs a good fit for their training manual.


"A FUNNY" Coffee Pot Reader

Author: Lori-Ann Willey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781034597261

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"A FUNNY" Coffee Pot Reader is a collection of dry, iffy humor of a couple living off the grid in Maine. Living such a lifestyle, a sense of humor is a great asset, even if the humor is dry, misunderstood, or a full-belly rollover.