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The Best of Modern Humor

by · 1983

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Here, freshly picked from a brilliant connoisseur (and practitioner) of humor, are the finest, funniest writings of everyone who makes us laugh today - from Thurber to Woody Allen, from Benchley to Joseph Heller, from Leacock (Stephen) to Lebowitz (Fran)... the names (they're all on the front of the jacket) tell the story !

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 542 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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“If you want more of the same (humor), start with these.”

  1. Getting Even Woody Allen · 1966
  2. Thurber Country James Thurber · 1953
  3. The Complete Prose Woody Allen · 1989
  4. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters Jean Shepherd · 1971

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“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook Peter Cook · 2002
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