Search this site    Unspeakable Acts Author: Bond, Simon ISBN: 0-517-54600-0 Pages: 96 Format: Paperback Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Published: December 12, 1988 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Blunderful World of Bloopers Author: Schafer, Kermit ISBN: 0-517-52630-1 Pages: 390 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Published: August 29, 1984 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 Silver Anniversary Edition - 25 Years of Radio & TV Bloopers. More than 1000 bloopers. More than 100 cartoons. Includes index. Night of the Crash-Test Dummies Author: Larson, Gary ISBN: 0-8362-2049-8 Pages: 104 Format: Paperback Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Published: January 1, 1988 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 From the Publisher: The Far Side® and the Larson® signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. Dear George Author: Burns, George ISBN: 0-399-51274-8 Pages: 220 Format: Paperback Publisher: Perigee Trade Published: October 7, 1986 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From Publishers Weekly: The public's enthusiasm for Burns continues unflagged, and this book should be as successful as his How to Live to Be 100or More and Dr. Burns' Prescription for Happiness. But relatively few of the jokes are funny. Using the device of letters ostensibly sent by readers requesting his wisdom, the comedian comments on sex, old age, sex in old age, sex with young people in old age. There are stories about great vaudevilleans, some amusing, some merely sentimental tributes. Burns has an appealingly informal style: if he can't fit an anecdote into his response he simply appends an aside to the reader, which lends the book some of the rhythm of a stand-up act. But one misses his wonderful vocal delivery, which during his long career has undoubtedly saved many jokes no better than most of these. Photos. Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Bush to Bush The Lazlo Toth Letters Author: Novello, Don ISBN: 0-7432-5108-3 Pages: 169 Format: Paperback Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: October 1, 2003 Condition: Price: USD $2.99 From Publishers Weekly: Comedian Novello, a.k.a. Lazlo Toth, is still at it: writing zany letters to famous people-to Bill Cinton, the Pope, Dubya-and sometimes getting replies. To President Clinton in 1996, Toth proposes that the solution for the Balkans is a "new multi-religion inspired religion," with Wednesday as its sabbath. He asks Pope John Paul II for the Church's position on whether Earth has a "mirror planet" on the other side of the Sun, and if such a planet exists, whether the Pope on that planet is also infallible (this letter appears not to have received a response). Al Gore is one of Toth's favorite epistolary targets. After the 2000 election, Toth writes to cheer him up about losing the election: "Be Positive! Stop saying that you're already thinking about running again in 2004. People are going to think you have nothing else to do." He suggests Gore consider dental school instead. For those who share Novello's wacky sense of humor, this third volume of Lazlo correspondence will bring many laughs. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist: Don't call Novello a one-trick pony. The early Saturday Night Live cast member and writer does at least two tricks. Out in public, he plays Father Guido Sarducci, a priest-caricature given to excruciating monologues on such matters as the bill for the last lunch. At home, he plays Lazlo Toth, writer of impertinent letters to political celebrities and big businesses. Typical Lazlo missives are the ones in this third collection of them complaining to Delta Air Lines on the assumption that the company has something to do with the Delta Partners that keeps him waiting for the crown for a broken tooth. Only the occasional insult in the letters is funny (e.g., Monica Lewinsky can't get a date except with a man who can't leave the house alone), so most of the book's laughs arise from the lameness of the replies Lazlo receives. No pol or business will risk telling a fool he's a fool. Hawking by Novello's fellow TV geeks will boost initial interest in this surefire next-year's-garage-sale item. Acquire with caution. Ray Olson Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Stay Fit & Healthy Until You're Dead Authors: Barry, Dave / O'Brien, Jerry (Illustrator) ISBN: 0-87857-570-7 Pages: 96 Format: Paperback Publisher: Rodale Books Published: May 2000 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Review: "His uncelebrity fitness book is probably the funniest thing on the market today."--People Magazine "Undaunted by the USA's hopeless devotion to physical fitness, author Dave Barry squares off against serious exercise junkies with Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead, identifying the absurdity of it all in textbook format."--USA Today Book Description: Dave Barry tackles the fitness industry in this classic spoof of health and diet books everywhere.AUTHORBIO: DAVE BARRY is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald journalist whose articles appear in hundreds of newspapers each week. He is the author of more than 20 books and lives in Miami, Florida. Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man Author: Allen, Tim ISBN: 0-7868-6134-7 Pages: 210 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Hyperion Books Published: October 1994 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 From Publishers Weekly: Allen is best known as the lead actor in the TV comedy series 'Home Improvement'. Here his approach is mostly humorous with a few serious essays. It quickly becomes clear that he honed his talents in venues frequented by the 18-30 age cohort, for he concentrates on the differences between men and women in such areas as sex, clothes, hobbies, friends and reactions to the environment. Some of the selections are entertaining, like the one about changing his original surname, Dick. Others, like "More Power," about tools, are markedly less so. The humor is a strange amalgam of the callow and the sophisticated and the result is only intermittently funny, and then only mildly so. 500,000 first printing; first serial to TV Guide and Playboy. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist: This is another differences-between-the-sexes-har-har book, and we can't get enough of those, can we? Its advantage vis-{...}a-vis the others is that it is written by Allen more or less in the persona of his character in the TV sitcom, Home Improvement. Unfortunately, it is to a large degree an extended routine that Allen does very well but that features nothing new or really insightful. Such an Allen insight as "It's a man's place to pretend something doesn't hurt" typifies the tenor here, as does the extremely brief chapter "The Secrets Men Never Tell Women," which consists of a single throwaway punch line. As comedy, this has the disadvantage of being static and scripted; as literature, the disadvantage of covering familiar territory familiarly. Oh, it's still funny but probably considerably more so to fans of Allen and his popular TV show than to other readers. Mike Tribby Humor Is Tremendous Author: Jones, Charlie ISBN: 0-8423-1361-3 Pages: 126 Format: Paperback Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Published: May 1988 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Book Description: Pastors, speakers, and readers in general will enjoy this hilarious collection of jokes, one-liners, and amusing quotes both old and new. You Know You're Filipino If... Author: Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz ISBN: 9-71630-080-8 Pages: 85 Format: Paperback Publisher: Tahanan Books Published: 1997 Condition: Price: USD $2.99 Binder Twine 'n Bandaids Homegrown Humor from the Heartland Author: Dunn, D. D. ISBN: 0-9763084-0-1 Pages: 171 Format: Paperback Publisher: Amherst Press Published: March 2005 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 In this hilarious collection of stories, D.D. Dunn uses wit and humor to tell about life on a small, run-down farm in western Illinois in the sixties. These entertaining accounts include her childhood recollections of freeing her brother's head from the steering wheel of a tractor, to almost hanging herself with binder twine in the ramshackle barn. You will find out about the crap in the crock, and how she dealt with the bully at school. The lessons she learned about laughter, love and life have been shared for many years around the normal gathering places of family and friends, and now she is sharing them with you. Her unique writing style will leave you nodding in recognition at the common ground of life's little setbacks we all endure. This bundle of twenty-five "truth-is-funnier-than-fiction" stories from Dunn Movin' Farms delivers homegrown chuckles, sidesplitting belly laughs, and maybe a few tears.   Who's in Charge Here? 1984 Author: Gardner, Gerald C. ISBN: 0-553-34076-X Pages: 96 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Bantam Books Published: January 1984 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 Idiot Letters Author: Rosa, Paul ISBN: 0-385-47508-X Pages: 160 Format: Paperback Publisher: Main Street Books Published: March 1, 1995 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 Book Description: Look out, public relations; take cover, customer service -- Paul Rosa's letter is in the mail and his inventively imbecilic queries about consumer products have a way of eliciting equally idiotic and even more unlikely answers from some of America's biggest companies. From the Publisher: Look out, public relations; take cover, customer service -- Paul Rosa's letter is in the mail and his inventively imbecilic queries about consumer products have a way of eliciting equally idiotic and even more unlikely answers from some of America's biggest companies. Some very amusing letters! Dave Barry Slept Here A Sort of History of the United States Author: Barry, Dave ISBN: 0-394-56541-X Pages: 178 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Random House Published: May 27, 1989 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Amazon.com: Dave runs American history through the wringer, and comes up with some wonderfully warped formulations. (The Vikings, for example, "were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople...") Covering pre-Columbian days through the dawn of the Bush administration, Dave Barry Slept Here is the funniest thing to hit this great nation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930. From Publishers Weekly: Miami Herald syndicated columnist Barry here assembles a funny U.S. history replete with malapropisms (Ferdinard and Imelda of Spain financed Columbus), parodies ("This land is your land, / This land is my land, / Looks like one of us / Has a forged deed to the land."), literal-mindedness (President Monroe Doctrine) and, above all, anachronisms (the Wrights' first flight was canceled because of equipment problems at O'Hare). Several clever gags run through the book--one about the significant contributions of women and minorities (although none is ever detailed), another ascribing the date of every major event to October 8 (for ease in remembering) and a third featuring the Hawley-Smoot tariff, which had an immediate impact on the Great Depression. There are few heroes in Barry's pantheon, and only an occasional villain--principally Richard Nixon--while other widely admired figures, like Mark Twain and Winston Churchill, are given their lumps. Author tour. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. He's Gonna Toot & I'm Gonna Scoot Waiting for Gabriel's Horn Author: Johnson, Barbara ISBN: 0-8499-3701-9 Pages: 176 Format: Paperback Publisher: Thomas Nelson Published: April 9, 1999 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Sharing outrageous humor, rib-tickling insights and inspiring, real-life examples, Barbara Johnson shows readers how to put life's trails into heavenly perspective. While we wait on Gabriel's horn to sound, Barbara gives women an external telescope with which to view their often difficult world. The Late Night with David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists Authors: Letterman, David / Wells, Leslie ISBN: 0-671-72671-4 Pages: 169 Format: Paperback Publisher: Pocket Published: October 1, 1990 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From the Publisher: Read them at your own pace - the funniest Top Ten Lists from "Late Night with David Letterman." Plus, if you buy now, this special bonus list: Top Ten Reasons to Buy This Book: 10. Serves as handy coaster for two jumbo beverages 9. Plentiful misprints sure to make it a valuable collector's item 8. Ideal for really easy book report 7. Everything you need to know to pilot your own jumbo jet 6. Randomly selected page numbers could include winning lottery combinations 5. You're mentioned on page 43 4. Paper made from criminal trees which deserved to die 3. Sure to impress the babes 2. This is the very last copy in existence 1. Damn it! It's about time you did something for you! World's Best Golf Jokes Author: McCune, Robert (Editor) ISBN: 0-207-15462-7 Pages: 96 Format: Paperback Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Published: June 1991 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Doctor Knock-Knock's Official Knock-Knock Dictionary Author: Rosenbloom, Joseph / Behr, Joyce (Illustrator) ISBN: 0-8069-8936-X Pages: 128 Format: Paperback Publisher: Sterling Published: September 15, 1980 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Essential for every young comedian, with 100 cartoons and index. "Gr.3-7. Rosenbloom is providing a service."--SLJ. "A must...all ages."--PW. 128 pages, b/w illus. throughout Women's Lip Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes Author: Warren, Roz (Editor) / Warren, Rosalind ISBN: 1-887166-38-6 Pages: 244 Format: Paperback Publisher: Hysteria Publications Published: October 1998 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Book Description: Alternating between the outrageous, the irreverent and the just plain hilarious, Women's Lip offers over 500 of the wildest, sassiest things women ever said. Share in the insight and humor as women such as Madonna, Mae West and Gertrude Stein comment on men, love and life. About the Author Roz Warren is the editor of fifteen collections of womenis humor, including the classic Women's Glib. She reviews humor books and CDs for numerous publications, and is working on her first novel. She lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Bosses & Other Reptiles Author: Zolkos, Rodd ISBN: 0-8092-3617-6 Pages: 127 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Contemporary Books Published: September 1994 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From the Publisher: Quips, quotes, jokes, and curses for anyone who's ever fantasized about winning the lottery, buying the company, and directing the boss to the nearest unemployment line. The Bad Driver's Handbook Hundreds of Simple Maneuvers to Frustrate, Annoy, and Endanger Those Around You Authors: Arnstein, Zack / Arnstein, Larry / Duddles, Bryan ISBN: 1-59580-004-2 Pages: 189 Format: Paperback Publisher: Santa Monica Press Published: August 1, 2005 Condition: Price: USD $4.99 Review: "The most indispensable book ever written for the motoring public . . . deserves a Pulitzer for mayhem" -Salt Lake Tribune Braude's Treasury of Wit and Humor Author: Braude, Jacob M. ISBN: 0-13-081448-2 Pages: 277 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc. Published: December 1964 Condition: Price: USD $2.99 1993 Humor and Cartoon Markets Authors: Staake, Bob / Shaughnessy, Roseann (Editor) ISBN: 0-89879-559-1 Pages: 332 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Writers' Digest Books Published: September 1992 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 Unstoppable Mad Author: PUBLICATIONS, E.C. ISBN: 0-446-36313-8 Pages: 90 Format: Paperback Publisher: Warner Books Published: October 1, 1992 Condition: Price: USD $3.29 First time in paperback. The Chickens Are Restless Author: Larson, Gary ISBN: 0-8362-1717-9 Pages: 95 Format: Paperback Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Published: October 1, 1993 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Book Description: The Far Side® and the Larson® signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. Dave Barry Turns 40 Author: Barry, Dave ISBN: 0-517-57755-0 Pages: 179 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Crown Published: April 28, 1990 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Amazon.com: Is Dave Barry going mature on us? Well, no. But in Dave Barry Turns 40, he does do some thinking out loud about the aging process, aiming his thoughts at his "career-pursuing, insurance-buying, fitness-observing, Lamaze-class-taking, breast-feeding, data-processing, mortgage-paying, Parents'-Night-attending, business-card-exchanging, compact-disc-owning, tooth-flossing" contemporaries. Funny and true-to-life, especially if you were born before 1957. Book Description: Dave Barry is hot; Dave Barry is now; Dave Barry is GETTING OLD! Funny things happen when a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize((ND))winning humorist confronts middle age. The New York City Cab Driver's Joke Book Volume II Author: Pietsch, Jim ISBN: 0-446-60487-9 Pages: 270 Format: Paperback Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: April 1, 1998 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 From the Publisher: "Heard any good jokes lately?" It all started with a single question Jim Pietsch asked thousands of his passengers. After all, a New York cabbie -- exactly like Pietsch himself -- eventually hears them all. Many of the routines, riddles, anecdotes, tall tales, and one-liners Pietsch heard from blue-collar workers, blue-ribbon intellectuals, and gold-plated celebrities found their way into his surprise sidesplitting bestseller, The New York City Cab Drivers's Joke Book. Annotation: New York City cabdriver, Jim Pietsch's collection of 400 jokes --- plus amusing stories about the passengers. Raging Hormones Authors: Williamson, Martha / Sheets, Robin ISBN: 0-385-26486-0 Pages: 124 Format: Paperback Publisher: Main Street Books Published: February 1, 1990 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Includes bibliographical references. BUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKS Buy4LessBooks Free Classified Ads