- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Revised edition edition (24 April 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141013591
- ISBN-13: 978-0141013596
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.5 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 620,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Looking for a good joke? Searching for an icebreaker for that after-dinner speech? Or are you just in need of a few laughs? Then stop! Your search is over. What you have here is probably the finest, funniest, most up-to-date collection of gags, rib-ticklers and plain silly one liners ever to find themselves squeezed inside the covers of a book. Organized by subject matter (from Absence - via Insults - to Writers) and containing side-splitters stolen from such wits as Groucho Marx, Orson Welles, Mark Twain and P J O'Rourke, among many, many others, this book will ensure that people will feel compelled to laugh at you wherever you go.
About the Author
Fred Metcalf was born in Yorkshire and educated in Devon. He has worked as a freelance writer in London, Sydney and Los Angeles. He is also the editor of THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF MODERN HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
What can I say? There are 310 pages with about 15 jokes per page, totalling nearly 5,000 jokes but are they any good? Here's a smaple to help you judge - I'll take the first joke on page 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100. So here's a test to see how many of the five you laugh at:
An artist is a man who won't prostitute his art - except for money.
Employer-speak: "Join our fast-paced team" means "We have no time to train you"
A consultant is someone who is called in at the last minute to share the blame.
If we didn't have divorce where would we get waitresses?
A car dealer in Udopia got caught turning back all the fuel gauges.
Did you laugh? I didn't, and I read several pages. Everyone's humour is different and this might appeal to you but thye didn't even raise a smile with me. Not worth the postage, I'm afraid.
An artist is a man who won't prostitute his art - except for money.
Employer-speak: "Join our fast-paced team" means "We have no time to train you"
A consultant is someone who is called in at the last minute to share the blame.
If we didn't have divorce where would we get waitresses?
A car dealer in Udopia got caught turning back all the fuel gauges.
Did you laugh? I didn't, and I read several pages. Everyone's humour is different and this might appeal to you but thye didn't even raise a smile with me. Not worth the postage, I'm afraid.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Fred Metcalf used to write funny speeches for David Frost - that's what I learned from the Bob Monkhouse book on public speaking. This is an excellent resource, full of little quips which can improve your speeches. I work as a speechwriter and I always have it by my side, along with his Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations.
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Poor, poor, poor... There's little else to be said. It is a dictionary of jokes, that's what it says on the cover, so they ARE collated in alphabetical order according to subject. That's one criteria of a dictionary. Problem is they forgot the other one... These jokes aren't funny. The bulk of the book is mostly quotes and definitions written by someone who clearly has a better knowledge of dictionaries than of jokes.
Did you hear the one about the joke book that wasn't funny? If you buy this you will.
Did you hear the one about the joke book that wasn't funny? If you buy this you will.
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