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READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples from interesting out of print books. This issue features a 1955 book by Joey Adams entitled Strictly for Laughs, published by Frderick Fell, Inc, New York. Joey Adams (1911-1999) was a comedian, vaudevillian, radio host, nightclub performer, author and tv show presenter. His wife Cindy Adams, whom he […]
Joey Adams writes about how to test a good comedian… He writes: Any comic worth his weight in laughs must have a joke file that he carries with him in the back of his funny bone at all times, ready for an emergency. Like in case he shoud bump into an audience… or a table […]
Dumb jokes will always be popular because they make the reader feel superior, wrote Joey Adams… Mr Adams devotes a chapter to dumb jokes with examples like these: He saw a moose head hanging on the wall. He asked the host, “Can I go into the next room and see the rest of it?” And: […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples from interesting out of print books. At first glance, an old hardback called Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character might not jump out as being potentially entertaining. But the book has many short, humorous anecdotes. While not all of them are hilarious now, they are all well structured […]
How some jokes work in traditional Scottish anecdotes… The author describes the mechanical aspects of some jokes. The joke might be “the odd and unexpected view which is taken of some matter”. He writes: A junior minister having to assist at a church in a remote part of Aberdeenshire, the parochial minister (one of the […]
The author of Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character gives examples of mistake in humor… He writes: A piper was plying his trade in the streets, and a strict elder of the kirk, desirous to remind him that it was a somewhat idle and profitless occupation, went up to him and proposed solemnly the first […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to collect a few samples from interesting out of print books. This issue features jokes from Boys of Our Empire, Volume 1, 1901, an anthology of an Edwardian periodical for boys. This one-penny magazine featured adventure stories, interesting news items from around the British Empire, wise columns, and jokes. Many of the jokes […]
Some more gags from Boys of Our Empire, Volume 1, 1901, an anthology of an Edwardian one penny magazine for boys… “Uncle John,” remarked Dick, “is the finest after-dinner speaker I ever knew.” “Why,“ said his friend, with some astonishment, “I never heard he had any ability in that direction at all.” “Well, he has. […]
More jokes from Boys of Our Empire, Volume 1, 1901, an anthology of an Edwardian one penny magazine for boys… “My proudest boast,” declared the lecturer, who expected his statement to be greeted with cheers, “is that I was one of the men behind the guns.” “How many miles behind?” piped a voice from the […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to provide a few samples from interesting out of print books. This issue features jokes from a small red hardback entitled Bubble and Squeak by “The Tatler Man”. The book was a first edition. There was no publication date recorded in this copy. But there were some advertisements for the book in English newspapers […]