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From Anon to Woody Allen ('Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber at weekends'), Miss Piggy and Dorothy Parker, to Mae West ('to err is human, but it feels divine'), Morecambe and Wise and P.G. Wodehouse to Homer Simpson and Seinfeld, the last hundred years offer a rich banquet of humour. Even 'Golf' and 'Inflation' have inspired witty remarks, while topics like 'Eating' and 'Drink', 'Politicians' and 'Poets', 'Animals' and 'Americans', 'Sex', 'Drugs' and 'Rock 'n' Roll' have all produced countless gems. Here is the definitive collection, fully updated, organised by theme and offering more laughs per page than any other book.
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Fred Metcalf was born in Yorkshire and educated in Devon. He has written jokes for Morecambe and Wise and Kenny Everett. He is also the editor of The Penguin Dictionary of Jokes. He lives in Bruton, Somerset. Mike Scully is the Executive Producer of The Simpsons.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Alas! A good reason for you not to buy any of those joke books. Instead, acquire this wonderful recollection of funny phrases actually said or written........ Suggested to witty quotation fans, of course, but a must for those that don’t possess humor but do have a good memory !!!!! A compilation of hilarious phrases, edited by Fred Metcalf, that will not let you down, in any argument or discussion. Good to break the ice, superb to outwit your opponent, it is the perfect tool to keep at bay the drama, in heavy or intricate conversations. Talking to the pretentious literati or author, you can say: “A good writer is not, per se, a good critic. No more than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender...” If he replies: “Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves” then you can say: “I never read a book before reviewing it- it prejudices a man so....” and then add: “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I’ll waste no time in reading it...” (a review by Luciano Lupini)
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The only drawbacks I found in this book are the relatively small font used and the lack of keyword index.
It is, However, well thematically ordered with an author index at the end.
I also find a bit weird the use of complete poems as quotations.
Otherwise very enjoyable.
It is, However, well thematically ordered with an author index at the end.
I also find a bit weird the use of complete poems as quotations.
Otherwise very enjoyable.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Buy this. Now.
30 Aug 1998
Format:Paperback
"The trouble with my car is that it won't start and the payments won't stop"
"I care a lot about my wife's happiness. So much so that's I've hired a private detective to find out who's responsible for it."
This book is an excellent collection of one-liners. Unlike many joke books, over 90% of its jokes are actually funny! There's a good indexing system as well. Though admittedly there's no entry for jokes on bicycles.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
invaluable
22 April 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Anyone who has to make a speech will make a better one if they have this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Pretty good quote book
31 Jan 2010
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The print is small and the paper is not of the best quality (this is a paperback edition) and the contents are very much like those of the Oxford Dictionalry of Humorous Quotations, indeed, quite often the same ones, but I enjoy reading it and it is not very heavy at all.
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