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Says the SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE, “This book is worthy of a book rustler.” In the tradition of humorist Will Rogers, it takes a look at life through the eyes of the cowboy. It is filled with quips and quotes that represent the Code of the West, like: “Always drink upstream from the herd” and “The easiest way to eat crow is while it’s still warm. The colder it gets, the harder it is to swallow.” …

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Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven’t been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious sign in front that says “$1,000 to anyone who will convert.” “I wonder what that’s about,” says Abe. “I think I’ll go in and have a look. I’ll be back in a minute; just wait for me.” Sol sits on the sidewalk bench and waits patiently for nearly half an hour. Finally, Abe reappears. “Well,” asks Sol, “what are they up to? Who are they trying to convert? Why do they care? Did you get the $1,000?” Indignantly Abe replies, “Money. That’s all you people care about.” Ted Cohen thinks that’s not a bad joke. But he also doesn’t think it’s an easy joke. For a listener or reader to laugh at Abe’s conversion, a complicated set of conditions must be met. First, a listener has to recognize that Abe and Sol are Jewish names. Second, that listener has to be familiar with the widespread idea that Jews are more interested in money than anything else. And finally, the listener needs to know this information in advance of the joke, and without anyone telling him or her. Jokes, in short, are complicated transactions in which communities are forged, intimacy is offered, and otherwise offensive stereotypes and cliches lose their sting—at least sometimes. Jokes is a book of jokes and a book about them. Cohen loves a good laugh, but as a philosopher, he is also interested in how jokes work, why they work, and when they don’t. The delight at the end of a joke is the result of a complex set of conditions and processes, and Cohen takes us through these conditions in a philosophical exploration of humor. He considers questions of audience, selection of joke topics, the ethnic character of jokes, and their morality, all with plenty of examples that will make you either chuckle or wince. Jokes: more humorous than other philosophy books, more philosophical than other humor books. “Befitting its subject, this study of jokes is . . . light, funny, and thought-provoking. . . . [T]he method fits the material, allowing the author to pepper the book with a diversity of jokes without flattening their humor as a steamroller theory might. Such a book is only as good as its jokes, and most of his are good. . . . [E]ntertainment and ideas in one gossamer package.”— Kirkus Reviews “One of the many triumphs of Ted Cohen’s Jokes-apart from the not incidental fact that the jokes are so good that he doesn’t bother to compete with them-is that it never tries to sound more profound than the jokes it tells. . . . [H]e makes you feel he is doing an unusual kind of philosophy. As though he has managed to turn J. L. Austin into one of the Marx Brothers. . . . Reading Jokes makes you feel that being genial is the most profound thing we ever do-which is something jokes also make us feel-and that doing philosophy is as natural as being amused.”—Adam Phillips, London Review of Books “[A] lucid and jar

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Some things are funny–jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed–but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing an

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Some things are funny–jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, "The Far Side," Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed–but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching "The Simpsons"? In "Inside Jokes," Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature–aka natural selection–cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured mis-leaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor. Hurley, Dennett, and Adams describe the evolutionary reasons for humor and for laughter. They examine why humor is pleasurable and desirable, often sharable, surprising, playful, nonsensical, and insightful. They give an "inside," mechanistic account of the cognitive and emotional apparatus that provides the humor experience, and use it to explain the wide variety of things that are found to be humorous. They also provide a preliminary sketch of an emotional and computational model of humor, arguing ("Star Trek"’s Data to the contrary) that any truly intelligent computational agent could not be engineered without humor.

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Kids love jokes of all kinds. So here are 1,000 jokes of all kinds about everything kids think is funny. From pets and their owners, to doctors, families, waiters, rhymes, silly stories, and more, indulge a childlike sense of humor with jokes they’ll love

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Have you ever wondered what kids do while riding the school bus to school? Well, on Jerry Harwood’s school bus everyone enjoys creating and sharing jokes and funny stories. Jokes From The School Bus is his compilation of some of those humorous expressions. Children love to read and tell stories. Reading and telling jokes can help fill the needs of a child who’s had a rough day, or even encourage poor readers to read. Jokes From The School Bus, with its sections on pet jokes, scary jokes, state jokes, as well as others, certainly meets these needs. Filled with amusing quips and illustrations, this book has been tested by school children and received an A+ for humor.

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Al Frankenas landmark bestseller, "Lies" (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," was praised as a abitterly funny assaulta ("The New York Times") that rang awith the moral clarity of an angelas trumpeta (The Associated Press). Now, this master of political humor strikes again with a powerful and provocative message for all of us. In these pages, Al reveals the alarming story of how: * Bush (barely) beat Kerry with his campaign of afear, smear, and queers, a and then claimed a nonexistent mandate. * aCasino JackaAbramoff, the Republicansa nearest and dearest friend, made millions of dollars off of the unspeakable misery of the poor and the powerless. And, also, Native Americans. * The administration successfully implemented its strategy to destroy Americaas credibility and goodwill around the world. Complete with new material for this paperback edition, "The Truth (with jokes)" is more than just entertaining, intelligent, and insightful. It is at once prescient in its analysis of right-wing mendacity and incompetence, and inspiring in its vision of a better tomorrow for all Americans (except Jack Abramoff). BACKCOVER: aDevastatinga]"The Truth" keeps its promise to be funny about extremely unfunny matters. It matches "Lies" in wit, and its subjects are tougher. The gags have bite. . . .The book stays lively even when it dissects President Bushas views on Social Security . . .And it is effectively leavened with bits of dialogue, many of them all too real.a a"The New York Times" aSubtle, laugh-or-cry-out-loud and ultimately devastating . . ."The Truth (with jokes)" is guaranteed to rile the right again with its forensic lasering of Republican skullduggery and media mendacity, laced with sharp humor. . . . Al Franken] is the voice the American left has been waiting for.a a"The Guardian" (London)

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Is it permissible to laugh at Hitler? This is a question that is oft debated in Germany, where, in light, of the dimensions of the horrors committed in the name of its citizens, many people still have difficulty in taking a satiric look at the Third Reich. And whenever some others do precisely that, accusations arise that they are downplaying and trivializing the Holocaust. But there is a long history of jokes about the Nazis. In this groundbreaking volume, Rudolph Herzog presents the first history of humor and jokes directed at the Nazis: from the anti-Nazi theatre scene of the nineteen-twenties and thirties, to the jokes about Hitler and Nazis told during WW II, to the cracks about Hitler in Germany today. Its’a fascinating and frightening history: Here we learn the tales of Germans-including many soldiers-who were imprisoned and executed for telling jokes about Hitler and other Nazi officials. Herzog also documents the surprising number of jokes in circulation during WW II and documents their not infrequent telling, as well as the regime’s efforts to suppress them.

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Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you’ll ever hear interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves their families and their friends and what they think about money sex and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated for his wit as for his scholarship and in this immensely entertaining book he displays both in equal measure. Stimulating something stinging and always very very funny Jewish Humor offers a classic portrait of the Jewish collective unconscious.

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Everyone loves to laugh, and to hear and see funny thingsAbut what makes something funny in the first place? What is humor? This book explains why our brains think something is funny, what happens to us physically when we laugh, why you can tickle your friend but not yourself, and so much more. Plenty of jokes and silly anecdotes are included, and hilarious line drawings appear on almost every page.

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David Cross’ first album, Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!, was a sprawling double-disc set, which was a risk. Not only are double-disc debuts a rarity, but comedy albums are notoriously inconsistent, so Cross was putting himself out on the line, but he succeeded grandly, delivering an epic masterpiece that fully captured the range and scope of his humor and stayed funny on repeated listens. Perhaps it was inevitable that its successor would suffer in comparison, and It’s Not Funny, released 18 months later in the spring of 2004, does. Part of the problem is that he’s covering many of the same topics he did on Shut Up; even though 9/11 and George W. Bush loomed as large on the American psyche in 2004 as they did in 2002 — it’d only been 18 months, after all — his jokes on these topics aren’t markedly different than they were on the previous record, nor are they better, and even if you agree with his politics, there’s simply too much of an emphasis on this, particularly since he’s reworking the same territory, not developing it. This gives a little credibility to the suspicion that It’s Not Funny was rushed to release. The album is culled from a series of performances at the Improv in Washington, D.C., between January 15 and 18, 2004, which, given the May 5 release, didn’t give Cross and his production team much time to edit and complete the album, and it does indeed have a bit of a tossed-off feel as if Cross were still working on new material that was rushed to market. Another part of the problem is that these shows were at a comedy club, not a rock venue, where Cross prefers to perform since they have a looser, wilder feel. Certainly, It’s Not Funny feels more like a traditional comedy record than Shut Up since it feels more like a collection of jokes, and it also suffers from inconsistent material. But since Cross is one of the sharpest, smartest, and flat-out funniest comedians of his time, the album is still very much worthwhile. It may be a collection of moments, but when the moments click, they kill, whether it’s a bit about electric scissors, a story about eating at an expensive restaurant where they serve edible gold, or a segment on Bush’s religion. These may not be as memorable as the best moments on Shut Up — nothing like the immortal story about getting drunk with Harlow — but that’s an unfair yardstick since his peers couldn’t live up to that album either. Instead of being a classic, It’s Not Funny is a solid comedy recording capturing a good, average performance by a brilliant comedian. It may not be timeless, which its predecessor certainly was, but it is sure worth a listen. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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Why did the chicken cross the playground? "To get to the other slide." What do you call Tyrannosaurus rex when it wears a cowboy hat and boots? "Tyrannosaurus Tex." And why will kids love this collection? Because it’s laugh-out-loud funny, filled with just the kind of jokes they love, and illustrated with colorful, action-packed pictures by best-selling artist Hans Wilhelm. Monkeys swing on trees, chased by bananas; dinosaurs roller-skate; and ghosts and goblins have a merry time. Every page is a blast

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Who says math can’t be funny? In Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks, Patrick Vennebush dispels the myth of the humorless mathematician. His quick wit comes through in this incredible compilation of jokes and stories. Intended for all math types, Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks provides a comprehensive collection of math humor, containing over 400 jokes. It’s a book that all teachers from elementary school through college should have in their library. But the humor isn’t just for the classroom-it also appeals to engineers, statisticians, and other math professionals searching for some good, clean, numerical fun. From basic facts ("Why is 6 afraid of 7?") to trigonometry ("Mathematical puns are the first sine of dementia") and algebra ("Graphing rational functions is a pain in the asymptote"), no topic is safe. As Professor Jim Rubillo notes, "Math Jokes 4 Math Folks is an absolute gem for anyone dedicated to seeing mathematical ideas through puns, double meanings, and blatant "bad" jokes. Such perspectives help to see concepts and ideas in different and creative ways."