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| The Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes: Over 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs, and Put-Downs | 
 enlarge | Creators: H. Aaron Cohl, Alan King
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (18 reviews)
Sales Rank: 43700
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 502
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 1884822630
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.02
UPC: 768821226305
EAN: 9781884822636
ASIN: 1884822630
Publication Date: January 12, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Introduction by Alan King. The most extensive collection of jokes ever compiled from Friars Club members and other comedians, this hilarious book covers every imaginable subject--from aging to dieting, fashion to fathers, birth control to male anatomy.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 A smile for the day... June 9, 2008
Since everyone can use a funny line to make the day at work go by this book definately achieves that goal. I gave the book to the Administrative Assistant of the office and once a day he picks a one liner or a quick joke to put on the board for everyone to read as they go by the front desk.
 The Friars Club Enclyopedia of Jokes is Great!!! January 20, 2008
If you only have one book to buy, this is the book of jokes that every comic should have next to the comedy Bible. Absolutely first rate...and printed in a format that was easy to read and in categories that were easy to follow. Chuckles on every page.
 1,998 failed jokes January 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This profoundly unfunny joke book was given to me as a gift, and ended up on the back of my toilet. Eventually, I wound up reading the book cover to cover, and I don't believe I laughed or snickered more than two or three times over the course of the entire book.
These jokes are just not funny. Some are "dirty" (which does not offend me), many are racist (which does), and almost all are boring and obvious.
Warning: If you rated this book five stars, you are probably one of those people who thinks they are much funnier than they atcually are.
 well organized January 26, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
a well organized collection of older and newer material. good as i reference or an tntro to jokesmithing.
Find a laugh at the place that you need it January 24, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Georgie Jessel would have loved this book. He was endlessly talking of the 'Friar's Club' in his old routines. But the truth is this book has quite a bit of material which comes from other sources. Never mind. There are jokes here for every situation and every occasion. The one- liners are conveniently indexed under subject making it easy to decide to be amused about something and finding a particular subject.
This is of course a book not to be ' read through' but rather dipped into here and there when one feels like a little chuckle or smile. There is however some bad taste dirty stuff which a number of readers have complained about, and which the editor might have done without. Of course in doing so he would have taken out one major element of 'Friar's Club ' humor.
Usually I find something disheartening about joke- books especially if they are too 'low in spirit'. I prefer a kind of mild humor as exemplified by this kind of joke.
"Behind every successful man , stands an amazed woman"
The work is not all jokes and has little stories and anecdotes also.
Enjoy.
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