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Ben Franklin laughing : anecdotes from original sources by and about Benjamin Franklin / edited with an introd. by P. M. Zall.

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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1980.

1980

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Encyclopedia of humor.

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Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1968]

1968

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Bennett Cerf's The sound of laughter [by] Bennett Cerf. With illus. by Michael K. Frith.

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Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1970.

1970

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Son of encyclopedia of humor.

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Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co [1970]

1970

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FormatTextCall numberSc 817-A (Adams, J. Son of encyclopedia of humor)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in: the Burbank edition.

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New York, World Pub. Co. [1969]

1969

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How do you like me so far? Foreword by Milton Berle. Drawings by Sheila Greenwald.

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New York, Pocket Books [1970]

1970

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Some American humorists. With a new introd. by Martin Roth.

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New York, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970.

1970-1929

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The smiling phoenix; Southern humor from 1865 to 1914 [by] Wade Hall.

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Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1965.

1965

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The encyclopedia of one-liner comedy.

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Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971.

1971

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A cheerful nihilism; confidence and "the absurd" in American humorous fiction.

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Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1971]

1971

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A pictorial history of the great comedians.

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New York, Grosset & Dunlap [1970]

1970-1957

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Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language, by Leo Rosten. Illustrated by Rob't Day.

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Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972.

1972

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Sex, liquor, tobacco & candy are bad for you! [Compiled by] Dick Sutphen.

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[Phoenix, Ariz.] Valley of the Sun Pub. Co. [1972]

1972

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Smiles, chuckles, and chortles. With drawings by Carol Cobbledick.

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Mount Vernon, N.Y., Peter Pauper Press [c1971]

1971

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The Reader's digest treasury of American humor. Selected by the editors of Reader's digest. Introd. and casual commentary by Clifton Fadiman.

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New York, American Heritage Press [1972]

1972

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Speaker's bible of humor.

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Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972.

1972

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Cockeyed Americana; a treasury of the odd, the ludicrous and the dumb. Found, saved & sifted by Dick Hyman. Foreword by Jimmy Durante. Illustrated by John Devaney.

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[Brattleboro, Vt., S. Greene Press, 1972]

1972

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Stories to make you feel better. Introd. by John Charles Daly; illus. by Michael K. Frith.

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New York, Random House [1972]

1972

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Dictionary for the disenchanted.

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Chicago, Regnery [1972]

1972

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I shoulda said ... a treasury of insults, put-downs, boasts, praises, witticisms, wisecracks, comebacks, and ad-libs [by] William H. Roylance.

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West Nyack, N.Y., Parker Pub. Co. [1973]

1973

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How to be funny in your own lifetime. [1st ed.

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Chicago, Playboy Press, 1973]

1973

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The Jew in early American wit and graphic humor.

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New York, Ktav Pub. House, 1973.

1973

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FormatTextCall number*PSW 74-752Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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5,000 one and two liners for any and every occasion.

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West Nyack, N.Y., Parker Pub. Co. [1973]

1973

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Don't muff the punch line [by] C. Lee Eggert and Ray Van Dusen.

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[Midland, Mich.] Pendell Pub. Co. [1973]

1973

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Lee County jokes 100 years ago [microform] a case study in Reconstruction humor in Alabama.

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Loachapoka, Lee County (Alabama) Historical Society, 1973.

1973

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Archibald the cat and other sea yarns, by the "Old Sailor out of The World" [pseud.] With illustrations by F. S. Church.

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New York, The World, 1878.

1878

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Fables by G. Washington Aesop [pseud.] taken from "anywhere, anywhere out of The World." With illustrations by F. S. Church.

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New York, The World, 1878.

1878

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The World's almaniac for 1879. A compendium of useless and interesting information. With illustrations by F. S. Church.

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New York, "The World," 1878.

1878

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Grandfather's corny jokes.

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New York, Exposition Press [c1972]

1972

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The book of weird; being a most desirable lexicon of the fantastical ... Illus. by the author.

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Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1973]

1973

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The comic imagination in American literature. Edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

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New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press [1973]

1973

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Will Rogers, by E. Paul Alworth.

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New York, Twayne Publishers [1974]

1974

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Tar Heel laughter, edited by Richard Walser.

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Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1974]

1974

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The toastmaster general's favorite jokes; openings and closings for speechmakers, by George Jessel.

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New York, Hawthorn Books [1973]

1973

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"From bussing to bugging"; the best in congressional humor [by] Angèle de T. Gingras.

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Washington, Acropolis Books [1973]

1973

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The National lampoon encyclopedia of humor, edited by Michael O'Donoghue.

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New York, National lampoon [1973]

1973

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Hasley, Louis. Black humor in recent American literature.

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1974

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"From bussing to bugging"; the best in congressional humor [by] Angèle de T. Gingras.

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Washington, Acropolis Books [1973]

1973

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Urban folklore from the paperwork empire / Alan Dundes, Carl R. Pagter.

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Austin, Tex. : American Folklore Society, 1975.

1975

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The essential Lenny Bruce. Compiled and edited by John Cohen.

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New York, Douglas Books [c1970]

1970

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The Harvard lampoon centennial celebration, 1876-1973. With a foreword by John Updike.

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Boston, Little, Brown [1973]

1973

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Khrushchev coloring book, by appointment to H. R. H Czar Nicholas II. Conceived and written by Gene Shalit. Drawings by Jack Davis.

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[New York, Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp., c1962]

1962

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The writings of Will Rogers.

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Stillwater, Oklahoma State University Press, 1973-1983.

1973-1983

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The beach book. Designed by Samuel N. Antupit; illustrated by Chas. B. Slackman.

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New York, Viking Press [1963]

1963

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The essential Lenny Bruce. Edited by John Cohen.

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[London] Open Gate Books [1973, c1967]

1973-1967

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FormatTextCall numberMWES (Bruce, L.) 75-1210Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The disrespectful dictionary, by Victor L. Cahn.

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Los Angeles, Price/Stern/Sloan [1974]

1974

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A century of college humor; cartoons, stories, poems, jokes and assorted foolishness from over 95 campus magazines.

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New York, Random House [1971]

1971

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Podium humor : a raconteur's treasury of witty and humorous stories / James C. Humes.1st ed.

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New York : Harper & Row, [1975]

1975

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Humor of the old Southwest / edited with an introd. by Hennig Cohen and William B. Dillingham. 2d ed.

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Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1975] c1964.

1975

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