Great American Humor: 1000 Funny Jokes, Clever One-Liners & Witty Sayings [Paperback]

Great American Humoris a collection of witty and funny quotes and one-liners from a wide selection of famous and not-so-famous Americans.

Great American Humorcollects 1000 of the best and wittiest remarks, quotes and one-liners said or written by well-known American writers, actors, comedians, politicians, and personalities. Among the hundreds of contributors included are Mark Twain, Bette Midler, Lewis Grizzard, Dave Barry, P.J. O'Rourke, Dorothy Parker, Phyllis Diller, Robert Frost, Milton Berle and many, many others.

The book will be divided into sections:
  •  Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Laughter
  •  Laughter and the American Lexicon
  •  We Hold These Laughs to be Self-Evident
  •  The Laws of Laughter
  •  With Laughs and Wit for All< I had a chance to review a copy of this book. It's funny, easy to read, and makes a great gift. Readers can flip through just a few pages at a time, chuckling at the wry wit or laugh-out-loud comments and definitions. My father-in-law and father both enjoyed it as well! --Motherhood MomentGerd de Leyis a former English teacher and has been a professional writer and actor since 1975. From an early age, Gerd has been an avid collector of quotations and proverbs from all over the world and has had more than 450 works published in Holland and Belgium. His most comprehensive book,Het Grootste Citatenboek ter Wereld(translated asThe Greatest Quotation Book in the World), was published in 2009 and contains over 40,000 quotes. For the past two decades, Gerd has worked together with linguist David Potter to bring his work to English audiences, resulting in publications in England, USA, India, Finland, China, and Vietnam.US