Yes, yes, it’s Old Joke Monday, when we visit portions of a failed book project of mine, a quiz book filled with what were then really old jokes without the punchlines. Being an expert at old jokes, you are expected to supply the missing bits. No one has asked, by the way, but yes,Continue reading “Like a Horse and Carriage”
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Love Makes the Head Go Round
Yes, it’s true: we have returned to our Monday of old jokes. For those teeming millions who have just joined us, these are selections from a quiz book I wrote eons ago, meant to test your knowledge of genuinely antique snippets of humor. (The first one here can be dated pretty specifically to theContinue reading “Love Makes the Head Go Round”
On the Road Again
Oh, let us pause for another collection of old jokes. If I contribute nothing else to twenty-first century society, I will at least have invented a new reason to dread Mondays. This selection from my brilliant but unpublished book So I Bit Him! Deals with jokes about travel. As ever, the punchline has beenContinue reading “On the Road Again”
Takin’ What They’re Givin’
A number of years ago, in response to no particular demand, I developed a musical lecture on the “I Hate My Job” song, a style of song as basic to the American experience as the hymn. Had I been able to clear all the rights…. But there is a broad literature of peopleContinue reading “Takin’ What They’re Givin’”
Set ‘Em Up Again
I didn’t plan to do this every Monday, but I felt that, having done this together last week, we needed to get back on before we developed a fear of it. This is the second in a series of excerpts from my unpublished bestseller, So I Bit Him!, a book of really, really old jokesContinue reading “Set ‘Em Up Again”
ARCHAEOLOGY OF HUMOR
I have to admit that sometimes I don’t understand every facet of every joke thrown at me by the humorists of the past. I think we can all enjoy the basic humor of this card, for example. Anyone who played on seesaws (teeter-totters, in my neighborhood) knows that joy of breaking the rules andContinue reading “ARCHAEOLOGY OF HUMOR”
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