The Signet book of American humor
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Published
New York : New American Library, 2004.
Edition
Rev. ed.
ISBN
0451210581, 9780451210586
Physical Desc
xxix, 414 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Sudbury - Adult
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Published
New York : New American Library, 2004.
Format
Book
Edition
Rev. ed.
Language
English
ISBN
0451210581, 9780451210586
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Table of Contents
"Who's on first?" / Bud Abbott, Lou Costello -- from The Dilbert principle / Scott Adams -- "The fable of what happened the night the men came to the women's club" / George Ade -- "Transcendental wild oats" / Louisa May Alcott -- from Without feathers, from "The scrolls" / Woody Allen -- from They used to call me Snow White...but I drifted ; from The Hartford Courant, "Not-so-evident truths that deserve attention" ; "Thank God I'm a middle-aged broad" ; "Why do I feel guilty? : let me count the ways" / Regina Barreca -- from Dave Barry's greatest hits, "The lesson of history" ; "Read this first" / Dave Barry --
from Down the street, "Spelling" ; "Love adventure" ; "How to draw girls" ; "Jump shot" / Lynda Barry -- from Chips off the old Benchley, "Tiptoeing down memory lane" ; "Good luck, and try and get it" ; from The Benchley roundup, "French for Americans" ; "Opera synopses" / Robert Benchley -- from Adult children of normal parents, "Fattening food neutralizers" ; "The chronicle of a crush as a pie chart" ; "Dysfunctional family greeting cards" / Jennifer Berman -- from The cynic's word book / Ambrose Bierce -- "In the Barcelona Cancer Center" / Amy Bloom -- From punchline, I don't get it / Elayne Boosler -- from The 2000 year old man / Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner -- from Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown -- from Artemus Ward, his travels, "Affairs round the village green" / Charles Farrar Browne -- from Brain droppings, "Things you never see" ; "Baseball and football" ; "Play ball" ; "Unnecessary words" ; "There are no times that don't have moments like these" / George Carlin -- from The four elements, "Mixed marriage : food fight" ; "The end of innocence" / Roz Chast -- from I'm the one that I want / Margaret Cho -- "An indignation dinner" / James David Corrothers -- from Love and marriage, "Till talk do you part" / Bill Cosby -- from The woman who caught the idea ; from Smith College stories, "The education of Elizabeth" / Josephine Daskam -- from My point...and I do have one / Ellen DeGeneres -- "Jack and Gill : a scholarly commentary" / Joseph Dennie -- from The complete mother ; from Phyllis Diller's marriage manual / Phyllis Diller -- from Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- from Journal / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Heartburn / Nora Ephron -- "The lover not taken" / Blanche Farley --
from Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio, "The model widower" ; "Mistaken philanthropy" ; "Important for married men" ; "Owls kill humming-birds" ; "A law more nice than just" ; from The life & beauties of Fanny Fern, "A whisper to romantic young ladies" ; "Don't disturb him!" / Fanny Fern -- from Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café / Fannie Flagg -- from No shirt, no shoes...no problem! / Jeff Foxworthy -- from Redd Foxx, B.S. / Redd Foxx -- from Oh, the things I know!, "Oh, the things you'll keep telling yourself!" / Al Franken -- "Model of a letter" ; "On selecting a mistress" ; "A petition of the left hand" / Benjamin Franklin -- "Easter is cancelled" / Adrianne Frost -- from How to raise your I.Q. by eating gifted children / Lewis Burke Frumkes -- "Queer people" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- from The princess bride / William Goldman -- "Graded paper" / Mark Halliday -- from With malice toward some / Margaret Halsey -- "Worrywarts and all" / Lynn Harris -- "The haunted man" / Bret Harte -- from If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet?, "Swinging through England" ; "Take a career woman, please" ; from When your phone doesn't ring, it'll be me, "Fathers and daughters : a pop quiz" ; from Get your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye, "What's a guy to do?" / Cynthia Heimel -- "The ransom of Red Chief" / O. Henry -- from Female problems, "Eeek! It's Kathie Lee!" ; "Notes from the traveler who whines" ; from The whole enchilada / Nicole Hollander -- from The widder Doodle's courtship, "I wish I was a widder by Betsy Bobbet" ; "On marriage" ; "On competition" / Marietta Holley -- from Laughing to keep from crying / Langston Hughes -- from Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- from You got to dance with them what brung you, "Folks aren't really good at heart? I'm not giving up" / Molly Ivins --
from Fear of flying / Erica Jong -- from Running fiercely toward a high thin sound / Judith Katz -- from Up the down staircase, "A doze of English" / Bel Kaufman -- "Marooned" / Garrison Keillor -- "One-liners" / Florynce Kennedy -- from How I got to be perfect, "Can this romance be saved?" ; "Out of town with a show" ; "The conversation gap" / Jean Kerr -- from Eroticism is a two-way street, and I'm working both sides / James Kincaid -- from Help! I'm a prisoner in a Chinese bakery, "After you say 'I do'...you don't" / Alan King -- from Pumping irony, "Chic coffee : say it ain't so, Joe" / Tony Kornheiser -- from Social studies, "Things" / Fran Lebowitz -- from Leading with my chin / Jay Leno, with Bill Zehme -- "Top ten good things about being named George W. Bush" ; "Top ten signs you've hired a bad department store Santa / David Letterman -- from Gentlemen prefer blondes ; from But gentlemen marry brunettes / Anita Loos -- from Stand-up routines / "Moms" Mabley -- from What the dogs have taught me and other amazing things I've learned, "Stupid women, stupid choices" ; "An insider's guide to the American woman" / Merill Markoe -- from A night at the opera / The Marx Brothers -- "Ethnic poetry" / Julio Marzán -- "Jackie Mason on Starbucks" / Jackie Mason -- from Prejudices : first series, "The blushful mystery" / H.L. Mencken -- from Are women people?, "Our own twelve anti-suffragist reasons" ; "Why we oppose pockets for women" ; "Why we oppose women travelling in railway trains" ; "Why we oppose votes for men" ; "The universal answer" ; "What every woman must not say" / Alice Duer Miller -- from The rants, "Dysfunction" / Dennis Miller -- from Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell --
from Aunt Carmen's book of practical saints, "Prayer to the saints" / Pat Mora -- from Good intentions, "Not George Washington's, not Abraham Lincoln's, but mine" / Ogden Nash -- from Bill Nye and boomerang, "Suggestions for a school of journalism" ; from Baled hay, "Fun of being a publisher" ; "What is literature?" ; "Table manners of children" / Bill Nye -- from Complete stories, "The garter" ; "The little hours" / Dorothy Parker -- from Living to prowl, "Book tour" / Sam Pickering, Jr. -- from The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- "How to write a blackwood article" / Edgar Allan Poe -- from You don't have to pet to b popular, "Come on down and wallow at low self esteem world for women" ; "Mail order alternatives to costly psychotherapy" ; from Do you hate your hips more than nuclear war?, "What's in the refrigerator?" ; "Girl's eye view...boy's eye view..." ; "Can you qualify for virginity re-certification?" / Libby Reid -- from Essays in miniature, "Battle of the babies" ; from Counter-currents / Agnes Repplier -- from Rock this!, "We all look the same in the dark" ; "Mommy? can I say 'nigger?'" ; "School daze" / Chris Rock -- from The writings of Will Rogers, "The older we men get, the more cuckoo we are" ; "The lady mosquito is busy, thanks" / Will Rogers -- from Reflections of a bachelor girl ; from Book of flirts ; from It must be thrilling to be a man / Helen Rowland -- from Classic Peanuts, "Author questionnaire" / Charles Schulz -- from Me talk pretty one day, "Today's special" / David Sedaris -- "Amerikans" / Henry W. Shaw -- from Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories and other disasters / Jean Shepherd -- from The rape of the A.P.E. / Allan Sherman -- from A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith --
from Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions, "If men could menstruate" / Gloria Steinem
"On female problems" / Pam Stone
"The cliché expert testifies on literary criticism" / Frank Sullivan
from Women who date too much (and those who should be so lucky), "The woman who mistook her blind date for a potential husband" / Linda Sunshine
from The power of Judyism / Judy Tenuta
from Is sex necessary? or, why you feel the way you do, "The sexual revolution : being a rather complete survey of the entire sexual scene" / James Thurber, E.B. White
from The progress of dulness, 1772-1773, "A college education" / John Trumbull
"Speech on the babies" ; "Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses" / Mark Twain
from Museums and women and other stories, "Under the microscope" / John Updike
from How did I get to be 40 & other atrocities, "Self-improvement program" / Judith Viorst
from The search for signs of intelligent life in the universe / Jane Wagner
"And so God says to Charles Darwin : let there be light in Kansas" ; "Assuming the PLOTUS position" / Gene Weingarten
One-liners ; from Pleasure man ; from The constant sinner ; from A bio-bibliography / Mae West
from The house of Mirth / Edith Wharton
"Hezekiah Bedott" / Frances Miriam Whitcher
from City boy / Herman Wouk.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Barreca, R. (2004). The Signet book of American humor (Rev. ed.). New American Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Barreca, Regina. 2004. The Signet Book of American Humor. New American Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Barreca, Regina. The Signet Book of American Humor New American Library, 2004.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Barreca, Regina. The Signet Book of American Humor Rev. ed., New American Library, 2004.
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