An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor Edited by BENNETT CERF eBook

Here is the best of the best … the finest of contemporary humor by the greatest of American humorists . . . sifted from our native ht- erasure by the one man superbly qualified to make such a choice. Bennett Cerf has kept America laughing for years . . . through his lectures, articles, columns, and books. Here he ranges happily through our literary treasures and, with the unerring instinct of a master, makes a connoisseur’s selection … a monument to the American comic spirit.

• Need a good laugh?
• Your doctor couldn’t prescribe anything
• better than this king-size, fun-filled treasury of good American humor.

Here you will find the golden best in stories, poems, scenes from hit plays, parodies, feuds, and satires. Here is humor from New
England and the Midwest, from New York and the South land, from the Far West to beyond the Twelve-Mile limit.