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American wit and humor

You Had to Be There

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc,

On the road with Doug Stanhope

Being Blanche

by Ashton Applewhite,

Coming clean about Truly Tasteless Jokes

How many does it take?

by David Lance Goines,

That old “Picayune-Moon”

by Garrison Keillor,

Off his chest, from his heart

Good-by to the ‘fifties–and good riddance

by Eric Frederick Goldman,

The Stuffy Decade produced some of the most wonderful nonsense in history--but why didn't anybody laugh?

Fiction, history, fun

by Gilbert Highet,

Two points of a joke

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

American versus English humor

by Harold George Sir Nicolson,

English pots and American kettles

by Frank Swinnerton,

A study in mutual understanding

Personal and otherwise

by Harper’s Staff,

Exporting humor to England

by Stephen Leacock,

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