Steve Allen's Private Joke File
Steve Allen
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN: 0609806726
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Why Did Steve Allen Cross the Road?
Steve Allen is a legend among comedians and entertainers. He's been playing to audiences on stage, radio, film, and television for more than fifty years, gaining acclaim for his unique wit and energy. Now for the first time, he shares more than a thousand of his favorite one-liners, anecdotes, limericks, quotes, and other generally funny things. The entries are divided into nearly two hundred categories to make it easy for anyone to find the right laugh for any occasion. If you're faced with the prospect of having to "say a few words," Steve Allen's Private Joke File is the perfect place to look for ideas and inspiration on such topics as awards, drinking, baseball, lawyers, dentists, insurance, marriage, the stock market, and dozens of other subjects. A sampling:
* My wife and I had words, but I never got to use mine!
* If ignorance is bliss, he should die of joy.
* "How are the acoustics here?"
"Great, I can hardly hear you!"
* I learned to rumba very early in life ... I had a tricycle with a loose seat.
* Room for rent, by young lady, freshly plastered.
Steve Allen has also included a number of his favorite essays and monologues. Steve Allen's Private Joke File is great to flip through for fun or for function, and for those of us looking for a good laugh -- to give one or to have one -- it's indispensable.
Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy
Lost in a Good Book (A Thursday Next Novel)
Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun.
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east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Paci fie Ocean, on the north by Canada and on the south by Mexico, how old am I?" The brighter students sat dumbfounded, but the dopiest of them all spoke up: .. You'd be forty-four." Duntbfounded in tum. the professor said, "That's right, young man. But how in the world did you know?" The student answered: "That's easy. I have a brother who's half nuts and he's twenty-two.'' 1,:) @'· An old gentleman of eighty-four, having taken to the nltnr n
honored society Tappa Kegga Beer? I have traced one of the commonest of these jokes back as far as the time of that celebrated English wit, William Hogarth. In a charming book called Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings. by Charles Hindley, my late edition of which was published in London by Chano and Windus, in 1881, the following story is related: "Having invited a party to dine with him at the Mitre Tavern [Hogarth] engraved a card on which was represented, within a circle, a pi, with a mitre at the