The 50 funniest American writers* an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion
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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.
