Is This Some Kind of Joke?

Is This Some Kind of Joke?
Title Is This Some Kind of Joke? PDF eBook
Author Hugleikur Dagsson
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 192
Release 2008-11-06
Genre Humor
ISBN 014190027X

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Hugleikur Dagsson is the most famous cartoonist in Iceland. Iceland is very cold, very bleak and very expensive. The only things to do there are drink and kill whales. Dagsson’s last book – Is This Supposed To Be Funny? – was a cult international bestseller. He hopes you likes this one. Otherwise he’ll have to kill some whales

How to Tell a Joke

How to Tell a Joke
Title How to Tell a Joke PDF eBook
Author Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 326
Release 2021-03-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0691211078

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Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome’s greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity’s funniest people. After he was elected commander-in-chief and head of state, his enemies even started calling him “the stand-up Consul.” How to Tell a Joke provides a lively new translation of Cicero’s essential writing on humor alongside that of the later Roman orator and educator Quintilian. The result is a timeless practical guide to how a well-timed joke can win over any audience. As powerful as jokes can be, they are also hugely risky. The line between a witty joke and an offensive one isn’t always clear. Cross it and you’ll look like a clown, or worse. Here, Cicero and Quintilian explore every aspect of telling jokes—while avoiding costly mistakes. Presenting the sections on humor in Cicero’s On the Ideal Orator and Quintilian’s The Education of the Orator, complete with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Tell a Joke examines the risks and rewards of humor and analyzes basic types that readers can use to write their own jokes. Filled with insight, wit, and examples, including more than a few lawyer jokes, How to Tell a Joke will appeal to anyone interested in humor or the art of public speaking.

Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Title Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes PDF eBook
Author Jim Holt
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 160
Release 2008-07-17
Genre Humor
ISBN 0393069443

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“Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”—Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness—just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit.

Roald Dahl: Whizzpopping Joke Book

Roald Dahl: Whizzpopping Joke Book
Title Roald Dahl: Whizzpopping Joke Book PDF eBook
Author Roald Dahl
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 129
Release 2016-09-13
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0141370599

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This collection of hundreds of great jokes would make even the Trunchbull laugh! Inspired by Roald Dahl's wonderful world, these gigglesome gags are guaranteed to raise a chuckle from human beans young and old.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

It's Kind of a Funny Story
Title It's Kind of a Funny Story PDF eBook
Author Ned Vizzini
Publisher Disney Electronic Content
Pages 452
Release 2010-09-25
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1423141083

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Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.

The New York City Bartender's Joke Book

The New York City Bartender's Joke Book
Title The New York City Bartender's Joke Book PDF eBook
Author Jimmy Pritchard
Publisher Grand Central Publishing
Pages 122
Release 2008-11-15
Genre Humor
ISBN 0446551058

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Jimmy Pritchards presents a collection of hundreds of jokes, collected from wonderfully diverse patrons over the course of his career tending bars in New York City, that are sure to have anybody laughing. When it comes to the finest, the far-outest, and the just plain funniest, the jokes start here--in the saloon capital of the world, New York, New York. Jimmy Pritchard, author and veteran NYC bartender, has heard them all from patrons across the oak. In these comedic cocktails, no one is spared, not the Irish or the elderly, not lawyers or blondes, not the handicapped, not sex-crazed animals, not even God. Jimmy brings you over 400 of the best in the house, stirred, shaken, and served inside this one-of-a-kind collection that is downright intoxicating.

Philogelos

Philogelos
Title Philogelos PDF eBook
Author R. D. Dawe
Publisher B. G. Teubner Gmbh
Pages 156
Release 2000-06-01
Genre
ISBN 9783519015956

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