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