Ho-hum, so-so, but mostly OK and very American jokes

books:


	• Comedy Comes Clean: A Hilarious Collection of Wholesome Jokes, Quotes, and One-Liners Adam Christing Three Rivers Press, 1996 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

Funny book for the entire family!

This book is such a great book for everyone. My family has a very wide range of opinions when it comes to humor, but when I read this book, I thought my family would love it! I showed my mom it and she bought one the very day for herself and my little sister. It is a book with great jokes that all ages and all types of people can enjoy!

Ho-hum, so-so, but mostly OK and very American jokes

Jokes generally require context and a good telling. I imagine some of these might have been funny told by the right person in the right way at the right moment, to a fully American audience. On paper I hardly broke a smile. Many of the jokes reflect particularly American obsessions, like with religion, which of course means Christianity (two chapter titles: "Holy Bible Humor" and "Crackin' Up the Congregation"), therapists, overweight, television and sports, and they don't transplant well outside the US. The jokes are not bad, just overall not that brilliant or insightful, or universal in appeal. I got this book hoping to learn more about what makes a good joke, but failed to find much enlightenment here. On the other hand, if you live in the US and want to pass off someone else's one-liners as your own, you may well draw a few chuckles. A few jokes were good for phonetics class, e.g.: When an old man told his friend he had purchased a new hearing aid, his friend asked, "What kind is it?" The old man answered, "About four-thirty." And: As ye smoke, so shall ye reek.

for more information click here

Good clean fun

I am generally pretty skeptical of clean humor. Sometimes it seems in our society that comedy is either very unclean or incredibly stupid clean humor which are just one "groaner" after another. This is definitely not the case with this book. I enjoyed the wide range of subjects that were discussed as well as the variety of contributors who ranged from Jerry Seinfeld to Henry Kissinger. This book is enjoyable for all ages and is just a fun read for anyone who wants to laugh. Best of all, this clean humor book contains remarkably few "groaners."

reviews: page 1, 2, 3

Including a hilarious collection of quotable, laugh-out-loud humor, this book covers everything from family life to job jokes to sports stories to pet problems. More than 50 voices ranging from the timeless--Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart--to the contemporary--Steven Wright and Jay Leno--to rising stars like Brad Stine and Robert G. Lee are featured.

for more information click here

hot