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The Friars Club Encyclopedia of JOKES The Friars Club Encyclopedia of JOKES Over 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs, and Put-Downs Compiled by Barry Dougherty and H. Aaron Cohl Copyright © 1997, 2009 by Affinity Communications Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this book, either text or illustration, may be used or reproduced in any form without prior written permission from the publisher. Published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc. 151 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 Distributed by Workman Publishing Company 225 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014 Manufactured in the United States of America Cover design by Daberko Interior design by Liz Trovato Manufactured in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-1-57912-804-3 h g f e d c b a Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request. A Little Credit The Friars Club has been the bastion of laughter longer than anyone can remember. They started in 1904 and while a few people around here may think they can recall those early days—trust me, they can’t even recall the ham on rye they had an hour ago. This private club that is home to actors, singers, dancers, musicians—and yes, even doctors, lawyers, and dentists—has been lucky to have among them the top comedians of all time. The Friars know a lot about comedy and their legendary roasts have been talked about, copied, trespassed, appalled, revered, scorned, applauded, and just plain loved for quite some time. When the Friars first started there were no comedy clubs, no TV, no Internet—if you wanted to hear a joke you had to rely on your unfunny coworker or annoying brother-in-law. And, if you wanted to tell one, you had to remember the countless jokes floating around the atmosphere. Thankfully today, with one-stop shopping, all you have to do is pick up The Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes, find a joke, any joke, and viola! Instant laughs. But while you’re telling those jokes, or listening to them, or just reading them to yourself, try to remember the men and women behind the funny. If it weren’t for these comedians and other amusing sorts it would be a very quiet read. The Friars Club is proud of its roster of jokesters who will keep the laughs intact for the next hundred or so years until they need to upgrade the yuks. It’s these brave souls who stand naked on a stage and throw caution to the wind hoping (and maybe a little praying) that when they finish talking the room will be noisy as hell from laughter. To Ben Barto and Caleb Larson who worked their magic to research the laughs, I say—the book is out now, go buy it. To Howard Cohl, who started the ball rolling on the Friars book journey, don’t just sit there—start thinking up more ideas! To the Friars Executive Director Michael Gyure and Executive Director Emeritus Jean-Pierre Trebot who love a good guffaw— forget the Club Managers Handbook, THIS is how you run a club—with laughs. To Freddie Roman, the Dean of the Friars Club and master joker, thank you for inspiring so many young comics to ply their trade at the Friars. The Club has opened doors and introduced recent headliners and television superstars to the general public—apologies for those with no sense of humor that don’t get the monumental significance of that. And to all of you who love a good laugh…enjoy the read. —Barry Dougherty Contents Introduction Actors and Acting Advertising Agents Aging Animals Birds Cats Dogs Insects Armed Forces Art and Artists Atheism Babies Bachelors Baldness Banks Beauty Birth Birth Control Birthdays Books and Writing Boredom Bosses Business California Cars and Driving Celebrities Michael Jackson The Kennedys Jack Lemmon Willie Nelson Richard Nixon Miscellaneous Celebrities Charity Children Circumcision College Comedians Conscience Conservation and Ecology Cooking Courage Crime Cynicism Dating Death and Dying Debts Dieting Divorce Doctors and Dentists Drink and Drinking Drugs Education Embarrassment Enemies Ethics Ethnic Specials Experience Failure Faith Fame Family Fashion Fathers Female Anatomy Finances Fitness and Exercises Flying Food Foreign Countries Canada China England Ireland France Germany Israel Japan Russia Friendship Funerals Gambling Growing Up Gullibility Guns Handicaps Health Holidays Homes Homosexuality Honesty Hospitals Hotels Housework Humility Humor Husbands Imagination Infidelity Initiative and Incentive Insurance Jewish American Princess Jewish Mothers Jews and Judaism Justice Kindness Lawyers Life Losers Love Luck Lust Male Anatomy Male Performance Manners Marriage Masturbation Memory Men Middle Age Miscellaneous Mistakes Money Mothers and Motherhood Mothers-in-Law The Movies Music Nature Negotiating New York Occupations Old Age Couples Opinion Optimism Paranoia Parenthood Politicians and Politics Poverty Problems Promiscuity Prostitution Psychiatrists and Psychiatry Religion Catholicism Christianity Eastern Religions Combination Acts Responsibility Restaurants Sales and Selling School Sex Oral Sex Safe Sex Sex Toys Shopping Silence Sleep Smoking Space Travel Sports and Recreation Baseball Football Golf Hunting and Fishing Stinginess Stress Stupidity Success Talent Taxes Technology Teenagers Television Thoughts and Thinking Time Tourists Transportation Travel Trust Truth Vanity Weather Wives Women Work
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