An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor Edited by BENNETT CERF eBook

Need a good laugh?
Your doctor couldn’t prescribe anything
better than this king-size, fun-filled treasury
of good American humor.
Here is the best of the best … the finest of contemporary humor by the greatest of American humorists . . . sifted from our native ht- erature by the one man superbly qualified to make such a choice. Bennett Cerf has kept America laughing
for years . . . through his lectures, articles, col- umns, 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.

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 Southland, from the Far West to be- yond the Twelve-Mile limit.