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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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 81-1245 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Encyclopedia of humor.
- Text
- Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1968]
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 70-65 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Bennett Cerf's The sound of laughter [by] Bennett Cerf. With illus. by Michael K. Frith.
- Text
- Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1970.
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 71-1801 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Son of encyclopedia of humor.
- Text
- Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co [1970]
- 1970
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817-A (Adams, J. Son of encyclopedia of humor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817-A (Adams, J. Son of encyclopedia of humor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 71-707 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in: the Burbank edition.
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- New York, World Pub. Co. [1969]
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWGT 71-228 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 88-722 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text F-11 2081 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The encyclopedia of one-liner comedy.
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- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 72-1765 Offsite A cheerful nihilism; confidence and "the absurd" in American humorous fiction.
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- Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1971]
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 72-572 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A pictorial history of the great comedians.
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- New York, Grosset & Dunlap [1970]
- 1970-1957
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 72-996 Offsite 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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 73-1180 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Speaker's bible of humor.
- Text
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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Dictionary for the disenchanted.
- Text
- Chicago, Regnery [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 73-2890 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
How to be funny in your own lifetime. [1st ed.
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- Chicago, Playboy Press, 1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 73-3513 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Jew in early American wit and graphic humor.
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- New York, Ktav Pub. House, 1973.
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *PSW 74-752 Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
5,000 one and two liners for any and every occasion.
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- West Nyack, N.Y., Parker Pub. Co. [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 74-604 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 74-1952 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 74-1258 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBX (Lanigan, G. T. Fables) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 74-1258 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 8-NBX (Lanigan, G. T. Fables) Offsite 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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 74-1258 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Grandfather's corny jokes.
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- New York, Exposition Press [c1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 74-4443 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 74-803 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 74-1944 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Will Rogers, by E. Paul Alworth.
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- New York, Twayne Publishers [1974]
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 74-5941 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Tar Heel laughter, edited by Richard Walser.
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- Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1974]
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 74-2282 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The toastmaster general's favorite jokes; openings and closings for speechmakers, by George Jessel.
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- New York, Hawthorn Books [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 74-2300 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
"From bussing to bugging"; the best in congressional humor [by] Angèle de T. Gingras.
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- Washington, Acropolis Books [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 74-1142 Offsite Magnum Opus. [microform] The great book of the University of Comus. The pandect of our national hilarities, comprising essays upon the thirteen divisions of the rituals; sketches of the tredecim doges, authors of the plan, and a monitorial guide to the workings of the fellowship ...
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- Louisville, Ky., Pub. under the direction of the thirteen doges, 1886.
- 1886
Hasley, Louis. Black humor in recent American literature.
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- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAA 75-347 v. 3-4 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
"From bussing to bugging"; the best in congressional humor [by] Angèle de T. Gingras.
- Text
- Washington, Acropolis Books [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 75-1815 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Urban folklore from the paperwork empire / Alan Dundes, Carl R. Pagter.
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- Austin, Tex. : American Folklore Society, 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 75-1854 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The essential Lenny Bruce. Compiled and edited by John Cohen.
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- New York, Douglas Books [c1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 75-5909 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Harvard lampoon centennial celebration, 1876-1973. With a foreword by John Updike.
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- Boston, Little, Brown [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-MEM+ (Davis) 75-1100 Offsite The writings of Will Rogers.
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- Stillwater, Oklahoma State University Press, 1973-1983.
- 1973-1983
- 22 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFL 75-555 v. 4 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFL 75-555 v. 5 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFL 75-555 v. 6 Offsite The beach book. Designed by Samuel N. Antupit; illustrated by Chas. B. Slackman.
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- New York, Viking Press [1963]
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 75-968 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The essential Lenny Bruce. Edited by John Cohen.
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- [London] Open Gate Books [1973, c1967]
- 1973-1967
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Bruce, L.) 75-1210 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The disrespectful dictionary, by Victor L. Cahn.
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- Los Angeles, Price/Stern/Sloan [1974]
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 75-7287 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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