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READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples from interesting out of print books. Humor in Memoriam by George Mikes is a 116-page hardback, published in London in 1970. George Mikes (1912-1987) was a Hungarian-British journalist and humorist. Humor in Memorium is full of theories about different aspects of humour. Plus there are a lot of […]
Mr Mikes gives many theories about Jewish humor, which he argues is the basis for the U.S. humour… He writes: Theodor Reik quotes the story of the Jewish nurse. She has spent the night with a very sick patient and when the doctor arrives in the morning, he enquires how his patient is. The nurse […]
The author talks of the difference between the clown and the humorist. The clown tries to shine and keeps failing… He writes: Remember Grock – one of the great clowns. He’d come on stage where his assistant – a well-dressed and well-behaved young man – was performing on the violin. Grock was huge, impressive, authoritative. […]
Unlike the clown, the humourist refuses to see the darker side of life but suspects – or knows — that his picture is far removed from reality… Mr Mikes writes: The humorist, on the other hand, is not a father-figure but a child himself – and a rather spoilt child at that. He knows […]
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 […]