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• Author(s): Jerry Palmer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureFirst published in 1993. When do we laugh? Why do we laugh? What makes us stop? What does 'humour' consist of? Listen to any everyday conversa...

• Author(s): Chris Lamb • Publisher: Quarry Books • Publisher Imprint: Quarry Books • BISAC: Form - EssaysIf you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a ...

• Author(s): Charles Osgood • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Topic - PoliticsCharles Osgood, one of America's favorite news personalities, offers a hilarious compendium of anecdotes from...

• Author(s): Jeanette C. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Despite the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves can be quite...

• Author(s): Daniel Wickberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhy do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they co...

• Author(s): Daniel Wickberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhy do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they co...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "a kind of Rear Window for retir...

• Author(s): Larry Langman | Paul Gold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a stapl...

• Author(s): Liesbeth Decan | Mieke Bleyen • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: CriticismDespite the ubiquitous presence of photographic humor in art and popular media, the phenomenon has as y...

• Author(s): Jillian Madison • Publisher: Hyperion Books • Publisher Imprint: Hyperion Books • BISAC: Form - Anecdotes, Epigrams & QuotationsSh#@ Your Phone Says "Damn You, Autocorrect!" If you own an iPhone, BlackBerry, Droid, or any smartph...

• Author(s): David Geherin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores...

• Author(s): Joseph Dorinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Studies Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Sc...

• Author(s): Mockingbird The Mincing • Publisher: Blue Rider Press • Publisher Imprint: Blue Rider Press • BISAC: Topic - AnimalsA humorous, illustrated, pocket field guide describing where to find--or where to avoid--the most disturbed North Ame...

• Author(s): Arthur A. Sloane • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: United States - General"I heard one [presidential] candidate say that what this country needed was a president for th...

• Author(s): Writers of Collegehumor Com • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Form - EssaysCollegeHumor.com is the National Lampoon of its generation. Since its creation in early 2000, the W...

• Author(s): Domnica Radulescu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Though comic women have existed since the days of Baubo, the mythic figure of sexual humor, they have been neglected...

• Author(s): Penelope Fritzer | Bartholomew Bland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Humor In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twent...

• Author(s): Iain Ellis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Critical humorists and religion are steeped in a long-standing cultural antagonism. This book recounts the dramatic skirmis...

• Author(s): Michael J. Fox • Publisher: Hachette Books • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Books • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsA personal and hilarious gift for graduates. Michael J. Fox abandoned high school to pursue an acting career,...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: EssaysFrom the Back CoverHere together for the first time are all of Mark Twain's signed stories, sketches, a...

• Author(s): Mitchell E. Shapiro | Tom Jicha • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism A number of books and articles have been written ranking the best situati...

• Author(s): Len Fisher • Publisher: Perseus Books Group • Publisher Imprint: BasicBooks • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Chaotic Behavior in SystemsThe process of "self-organization" reveals itself in the inanimate worlds of crystals an...

• Author(s): Calista McRae • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryA poet walks into a bar... In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent A...

• Author(s): Joel Fineman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJoel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called making st...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Kluger • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: SiblingsA provocative and surprising exploration of the longest sustained relationships we have in life--those we have with o...

• Author(s): Mary Roach • Publisher: Trusted Media Brands • Publisher Imprint: Trusted Media Brands • BISAC: Form - EssaysFrom acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her "My Planet" articles publ...

• Author(s): Allen Klein • Publisher: Tarcherperigee • Publisher Imprint: Tarcherperigee • BISAC: Emotions"Provides practical advice as to the fundamental importance of humor and laughter." --Steve Allen Science has proved, although we knew it a...

• Author(s): Leah Hayes • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books • Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics Books • BISAC: Nonfiction - GeneralNot Funny Ha-Ha is a bold, slightly wry graphic novel illustrating the lives of two young women from different cultural...

• Author(s): John Pollack • Publisher: Avery Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Avery Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - Semantics A funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay'...