Download or read book World Best Thought Provoking Jokes written by Dr G Francis Xavier and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will also motivate you to think positively, inspire you by stirring the creative juices, stimulate the genius in you, develop your moral values, help flower your personality and improve your sense of humour, while simultaneously providing practical wisdom from all over the world. The book is just the kind of humour that men and women across all age-groups would enjoy immensely and learn from.
Download or read book Jokes written by Ted Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 jargon-free study of the remarkable fact that we divert each other with stories meant to make us laugh. . . . An illuminating study, replete with killer jokes."—Kevin McCardle, The Herald (Glasgow) "Cohen is an ardent joke-maker, keen to offer us a glimpse of how jokes are crafted and to have us dwell rather longer on their effects."—Barry C. Smith, Times Literary Supplement "Because Ted Cohen loves jokes, we come to appreciate them more, and perhaps think further about the quality of good humor and the appropriateness of laughter in our lives."—Steve Carlson, Christian Science Monitor
Download or read book Laughter written by S.P. Sharma and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be the soul of the party.Find favour with your associates in business,or social circles!Get going with Laughter-the Secret of Good Health!In fact,the fastest way to break the ice in many a situation is to crack a joke. Which is why Danish pianist Victor Borge had quipped: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.This book is replete with humorous one-liners, quips, quotes and anecdotes that will have you rolling with laughter.The book also dwells on famous humourists and other personalities with a sharp sense of humour, including Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi, amongst others.Jokes apart, laughter also has multiple therapeutic benefits, as attested by medicalmen--and elucidated by oft-repeated maxim,Laughter is the best medicine.Indeed, in March 1995, the first Laughter Club was launched by a Mumbai-based doctor precisely for its therapeutic benefits.This book also tells you all about the scientific benefits of laughter. So read, laugh and be merry!For therein lies the secret of good health and happiness.
Download or read book Funniest Jokes In The World written by H D Shourie and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Funniest Jokes in the World brings together hundreds of jokes and epigrams— collected over several decades from all around the world— that are guaranteed to tickle the funny bone and brighten up the dullest of days.
Download or read book The Best Jokes I ve Heard written by Douglas Blankenship and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine these endorsements The joke is on you if you dont buy this book. Jay Leno Blankenship has an uncanny sense of humor that crosses all boundaries of fun. Everyone will laugh hysterically at these jokes. David Letterman There is no doubt that this is the funniest collection of jokes ever - I say ever - compiled. Buy it! Jimmy Kimmel Laughter is a constant vacation. Take the best vacation of your life for less than thirty dollars. Mary Lou Whitty When I read this book, I must have laughed a thousand times. The humor here is global in perspective, and Douglas Blankenship is dead center with this book. It has to be a best seller, no doubt. Mary Lou Cook United States Marines
Download or read book The World s Greatest Wacky One Line Jokes written by Bob Phillips and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Phillips takes good clean wackiness to new heights in The Worldâs Greatest Wacky OneâLine Jokes.The continual popularity of these joke books proves that Bob Phillips knows howto make readers laugh. No exception, this crazy collection of witty oneâlinersand goofy guffaws will tickle the funny bones of kids and adults alike. Asthese jokes are told on long trips, through dreary days, and at late nightparties, readers of all ages will discover that this really is the worldâsgreatest collection of wacky oneâliners.
Download or read book Stop Me If You ve Heard This A History and Philosophy of Jokes written by Jim Holt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”—Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness—just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit.
Download or read book Best Joke Book Ever written by Charles Keller and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch out--more than 600 of the world's funniest jokes and most hilarious cartoons are about to attack your funny bone--and you won't be able to stop giggling! Who could resist these?Judge: I thought I told you I didn't want to see you in my court again.Prisoner: I told the policeman, but he didn't believe me. First friend: They say you become what you eat.Second friend: Let's order something rich. Doctor, I feel funny today--what should I do?Become a comedian. These jokes are sure to be tops with class clowns everywhere.
Download or read book If You Can t Take a Joke written by Gary Lukatch and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Information Age has unleashed a torrent of facts, stories, history and, well, information. Instant communication is the order of the day. What used to take weeks or months to make the rounds now takes mere minutes. And so it is with humor. Now we can send and receive jokes, funny stories and other humorous fancies any time of the day or night. And we all get the latest gags from our friends, don't we? Every day we get jokes and funny stories and interesting historical notes and other spam-type jottings. We all have friends who remember every joke they have ever heard. The Editor of this volume is not, unfortunately, one of those people. So, being the world's worst joke-rememberer, he saved every humorous anecdote and story and joke that was sent to him over the years since the Internet has been up and in general use. Yep, he even saved the very first joke sent to him via email. And, admittedly, there has been a lot of really great humor making the rounds. Some of these gems you've heard, some have been sent to you, but a lot of them are probably still new. Gary Lukatch's newest book, If You Can't Take a Joke..., is a compilation of many of the best of the best emails, jokes, gags, stories and even some thought-provoking items. Enjoy them all. (NOTE: This is also a great book to keep in the bathroom to while away those quiet times.)
Download or read book Inside Jokes written by Matthew M. Hurley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evolutionary and cognitive account of the science behind why we crack up—“one of the most complex and sophisticated humor theories ever presented” (Evolutionary Psychology). 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 misleaps 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.
Download or read book Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People written by Matthew Diffee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains Diffee's funniest [New Yorker] drawings and writings from the past decade as well as all-new cartoons and sketches organized into categories that will appeal to smart attractive people in all walks of life, based on profession and circumstance."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book The Importance of Being Funny written by Al Gini and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When E. B. White said “analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,” he hadn’t seen Al Gini’s hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish fun: it serves as a safety valve for dealing with reality that gives us the courage to endure that which we cannot understand or avoid. Not everyone tells jokes. Not everyone gets a joke, even a good one. But, Gini argues, joke-telling can act as both a sword and a shield to defend us from reality. As the late, great stand-up comic Joan Rivers put it: ‘If you can laugh at it, you can live with it!’ This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, but also wants to know why.
Download or read book World s Best Jokes and Humour written by Oliver Roydhouse and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s All Time Best Collection of Good Clean Jokes written by Bob Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of jokes arranged alphabetically by topic.
Download or read book The World s Greatest Collection of Clean Jokes written by Bob Phillips and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This top-selling collection of pure fun (more than 295,000 copies sold) is back with a fresh and lively new cover to reach more readers eager to laugh. Puns, one-liners, jester-worthy jokes, and quirky quips will amaze and astound friends and family. Giggles are guaranteed as readers enjoy the crazy conversations and hilarious observations— “Daddy, the teacher was reading the Bible to us—all about the children of Israel building the temple, the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea, the children of Israel making sacrifices. Didn’t the grownups do anything?” “You’re the laziest fellow I have seen. Don’t you do anything quickly?” “Yes, I get tired fast.” “I haven’t slept for days.” “How come?” “I only sleep at night!”
Download or read book Drawing and Painting Course written by A.S. Hashmi and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is divided into 15 chapters, and as the title suggests, it is planned as a 15-days course wherein all the relevant aspects of drawing and painting have been explained in simple and lucid language with hundreds of illustrations and diagrams. The students while pursuing the course will gradually learn the importance of lines -- thin, thick, straight, dotted, curved, zigzag, horizontal, cross, slanting, etc. They will appreciate the role of shape, light, texture, balance, harmony, contrast, rhythm, tone, emphasis, span, colors, etc. They will develop a perspective and a point of view and will be able to distinguish between light and highlight, shade and shadow. The book, it is hoped, will be found useful by all those persons, young or old, professionals or amateurs, who have some taste, love for art and artistic creations.
Download or read book Best Gags Ever written by Alan Buxton and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mammoth collection of the funniest one-liners, jokes, and gags ever uttered"" ""Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people only once a year." --"Victor Borge""" ""When you have a fat friend, there are no see-saws; only catapults." --Demetri Martin""" ""Well, it's 1am. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids." --""Homer Simpson""" ""Old McDonald was dyslexic, E-O-I-O-E." --""Billy Connolly""" ""A man in the house is worth two in the street." --""Mae West" From Groucho to Gervais--this is the ultimate collection of more than 1,000 of the world's funniest jokes, one-liners, and zingers from stand-up, film, and television. This book is filled with the funniest quotes from the greatest comedians, actors, and actresses ever to walk the Earth. Containing thousands of great observations and jokes, the variety in this book is incredible, and the uniting factor is simple: great, funny lines
