The 50 funniest American writers* an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion
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| 100 | 1 | |a Borowitz, Andy. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The 50 funniest American writers* : |b an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion / |c *according to Andy Borowitz. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Fifty funniest American writers |
| 260 | |a New York, N.Y. : |b Library of America, |c c2011. | ||
| 300 | |a xv, 461 p. : |b ill. ; |c 20 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t A presidential candidate / |r Mark Twain -- |t The lecture tickets that were bought but never used / |r George Ade -- |t The ransom of Red Chief / |r O. Henry -- |t from Babbitt / |r Sinclair Lewis -- |t from Gentlemen prefer blondes / |r Anita Loos -- |t On conversation / |r Ring Lardner -- |t Imperial purple / |r H.L. Mencken -- |t More alarms at night / |r James Thurber -- |t The waltz / |r Dorothy Parker -- |t Farewell, my lovely appetizer / |r S.J. Perelman -- |t Simple prays a prayer / |r Langston Hughes -- |t The night the old nostalgia burned down / |r Frank Sullivan -- |t Across the street and into the grill / |r E.B. White -- |t The house of mirth / |r Peter De Vries -- |t from The magic Christian / |r Terry Southern -- |t from How to talk dirty and influence people / |r Lenny Bruce -- |t The secret vice / |r Tom Wolfe -- |t The counterfeit secret circle member gets the message, or The asp strikes again -- |t The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / |r Hunter S. Thompson -- |t A look at organized crime / |r Woody Allen -- |t The tax man / |r Bruce Jay Friedman -- |t Letters to Einstein / |r Philip Roth -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |t A few words about breasts / |r Nora Ephron -- |t Our white heritage / |r Henry Beard, Michael O'Donoghue, George W.S. Trow -- |t Better read than dead: a revised opinion / |r Fran Lebowitz -- |t Your action line / |r Charles Portis -- |t In the morning post / |r Donald Barthleme -- |t Curb Carter policy discord effort threat / |r Veronica Geng -- |t Vacation '58 / |r John Hughes -- |t The laws of cartoon motion / |r Mark O'Donnell -- |t The Tip-Top Club / |r Garrision Keillor -- |t Rolled in rare Bohemian onyx, then vulcanized by hand / |r Bruce McCall -- |t Tough as bob war and other stuff / |r Molly Ivins -- |t Corrections / |r Calvin Trillin -- |t Tips for women: how to have a relationships with a guy / |r Dave Barry -- |t Clinton deploys vowels to Bosnia / |r The Onion -- |t Shiftless little loafers / |r Susan Orlean -- |t Gothic baseball / |r Roy Blount Jr. -- |t If I were in charge of the networks / |r George Carlin -- |t Laws concerning foor and drink ; |t Household principles ; |t Lamentations of the father / |r Ian Frazier -- |t The writer's life / |r David Rakoff -- |t from I ain't scared of you / |r Bernie Mac -- |t Buddy, can you spare a tie? / |r David Sedaris -- |t It's so hard / |r Wanda Sykes -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |t What I'd say to the Martians / |r Jack Handey -- |t Your three wishes: F.A.Q. / |r David Owen -- |t Ask the optimist! / |r George Saunders -- |t Awake / |r Jenny Allen -- |t The pony problem / |r Sloane Crosley -- |t If not an apology, at least a "My bad" / |r Larry Wilmore. |
| 650 | 0 | |a American wit and humor. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Linton, Ruth tribute | |
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