The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour
Author | : Will Ferguson |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780670064434 |
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Author | : Will Ferguson |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780670064434 |
Author | : Will Ferguson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2007-03-06 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780143053668 |
The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour brings together a diverse and entertaining collection of the best humour writing. These seventy-one distinctly Canadian selections from fifty-four extraordinary writers represent over a century's worth of accomplishments in this unique literary genre. Will Ferguson's marvellous anthology features humour pieces from early twentieth-century writers such as Bob Edwards and Stephen Leacock, who defined the very essence of humour. Ferguson also includes a wide selection of writing by some of our best-known authors from throughout the twentieth century to the present: Douglas Coupland, Robertson Davies, Mavis Gallant, Thomas King, W.P. Kinsella, Stuart McLean, Paul Quarrington, and Miriam Toews, to name a few.
Author | : John Robert Colombo |
Publisher | : Penguin Global |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780147518149 |
There has long been a rumour going around that Canadians aren't funny. Well, John Robert Colombo has assembled a comprehensive collection of Canadian humour that is sure to dispel this rumour for once and for all. At once scandalous, subversive and hilarious, it includes a wide range of riddles, puns, and side-splitting anecdotes from the world of history, politics and culture (er, hockey). All those jokes that you share around the water cooler, that delight you in yoxur morning e-mail and that crack you up over your morning paper-they're all here, together for the first time in one handy and hilarious volume.
Author | : John Robert Colombo |
Publisher | : Penguin Books Canada |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780141006635 |
A recent poll conducted by Ipsos Reid for the Comedy Network showed that 99 per cent of Canadians believe laughter is good for the health. That only confirms what we suspected all along - The Penguin Book of Jokes is the ultimate feel-good book of the year! There has long been a rumour going around that Canadians aren't funny. Well, John Robert Columbo has assembled a comprehensive collection of Canadian humour that is sure to dispel this rumour for once and for all. At once scandalous, subversive and hilarious, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes includes a wide range of riddles, puns, and side-splitting anecdotes from the world of history, politics and culture (er, hockey). All those jokes that you share around the water cooler, that delight you in your morning e-mail and that crack you up over your morning paper - they're all here, together for the first time in one handy and hilarious volume.
Author | : John Robert Colombo |
Publisher | : Penguin Books Canada |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780143014904 |
All vital matters are up for ridicule in The Penguin Book of More Canadian Jokes, master gatherer John Robert Colombo's companion to the popular The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes. In this second hilarious collection of jokes, riddles, puns, anecdotes, and lore, you'll find popular pokes at all things Canadian, including politics, multiculturalism, small-town life, sexual habits, our favourite national pastime -- weather watching -- and much more. This assortment is a rich, tickle-me addition to our national inventory of wit. The added kicker is the appendix of two dozen ripe classics: the jokes and anecdotes that -- though weathered -- have "laughed us" through the ages. Book jacket.
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Canadian wit and humor |
ISBN | : 9780143051343 |
Although Stephen Leacock may well be remembered as a father of Canadian culture, he was a humorist of the school of Dickens and Mark Twain, exuding a universal quality that knew no borders. He taught the world, and perhaps more importantly Canada itself, that Canadians could laugh heartily and without reserve at themselves. This collection of his works--including several Sunshine Sketches and witticisms such as "How to Introduce Two People to One Another,""The Perfect Optimist,"and "How to Borrow Money"--demonstrates a warmth and wit that during his lifetime permeated his casual speech and possessed a timeless quality that lives on today.
Author | : Dale Jacobs |
Publisher | : Windsor, Ont. : Black Moss Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Canadian wit and humor |
ISBN | : 9780887533839 |
An anthology of contemporary Canadian humourists
Author | : Margaret MacMillan |
Publisher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2009-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143175211 |
Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian examines Leacock's life as a poor but ambitious student who rose to become an economist, celebrated academic, and, most importantly, the beloved humorist who taught Canadians to laugh at themselves.
Author | : Halli Villegas |
Publisher | : Exile Book of Anthology Series |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Canadian prose literature |
ISBN | : 9781550966916 |
Humor is an integral part of the Canadian identity, and we have a truly unique way of looking at ourselves and the world. Our greatest joy is found in irreverence, poking fun at our own stereotypes - shorts in the snow, beavers in the bush, love in a canoe - or by tweaking the nose of the grumbling giant to the South. We see the chaotic and the absurd all around us, and through irony, parody, and satire we laugh when facing the truth, or at times to avoid crying. What a nation finds funny, and how it embraces humor, is key to what makes a nation great. And we are a great nation! This collection includes short fiction, illustration, and short graphic fiction from a broad spectrum of backgrounds, persuasions, genders, and visions, uniting regional and cultural expression in a way never done before.
Author | : Allan Gould |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780771591808 |