Did you know joke books for kids are proven to help children build confidence, as well as improve their reading comprehension and verbal skills? Joke-tionary Jokes is packed with more than 444 family-friendly jokes--knock-knock jokes, silly puns, and hilarious Q&A jokes that will have kids laughing for hours. Joke-tionary Jokes includes humorous illustrations and is great for: Children, 6-10 years old Road trips, kids stuck in the house, summer reading, or whenever you need a good laugh Funny conversation starters to kick off family game night, pizza night, or a movie night Perk up your child's mood and keep them entertained with this book of jokes for kids. Check out the rest of the joke book series, Super-Funny ROFL Jokes and LOL-apalooza Jokes. Each edition has an exclusive knock-knock joke section.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes. Where once society’s most coveted trait might have been strength or intelligence or honor, today, in a clear sign of evolution sliding off the trails, it is being funny. Yes, funniness. Consider: Super Bowl commercials don’t try to sell you anymore; they try to make you laugh. Airline safety tutorials—those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning—have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. Thanks to social media, we now have a whole Twitterverse of amateur comedians riffing around the world at all hours of the day—and many of them even get popular enough online to go pro and take over TV. In his “smartly structured, soundly argued, and yes—pretty darn funny” (Booklist, starred review) Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means—or doesn’t—to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. “Fascinating, entertaining and—I’m being dead serious here—important” (A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically), Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor.
Political jokes exist around the world and across many types of political systems. But what purposes do they serve? Do they have an impact on politics—or on politicians? Surprisingly, scholars have paid scant attention to these significant questions. And, until the publication of this book, no one had ever systematically studied political humor in Mexico. When the first edition of this work was published in Mexico, it caused a stir. Elected officials, it turned out, had grudgingly accepted that they and their politics could be the target of jokes uttered in public, and even on television, but they were incensed that a leading academic had collected political jokes into a book and analyzed their function in a country that had experienced nearly a century of one-party rule. Now available in English for the first time, Seriously Funny is a groundbreaking work. Its goal is to examine the ways in which political humor—including nicknames, anagrams, poems, and parodies of religious prayers, in addition to jokes—has developed and operated in one country over more than four centuries. Although political humor thrives in Mexico, it is often cleverly encoded so that it doesn’t appear to be critical of government policies or officials. But, writes Samuel Schmidt, that is precisely its purpose: to question the actions and assumptions of the party in power. Schmidt argues persuasively that political jokes are acts of minor rebellion: their objective is not to overthrow a government but to correct its mistakes.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS presents an all-star collection of FOOTBALL jokes, riddles, and memes! With grid-iron one-liners like "Why did the football coach go to the bank? He wanted his quarter back!" these colorful, illustrated joke books will have FOOTBALL fans rolling in the stadium aisles.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS presents an all-star collection of HOCKEY jokes, riddles, and memes! With big-shot one-liners like "Why was the zombie thrown out of the hockey game? There was a face off in the corner!" these colorful, illustrated joke books will have HOCKEY fans rolling in the stadium aisles.
Hit the road with Scooby-Doo and friends! Scooby and the gang are ready to make you laugh out loud in this joke ebook. These on-the-go jokes are perfect for boring car, train, bus, or plane trips (not to mention trips in the Mystery Machine!). So sally forth with hilarious illustrations; intriguing back matter (including information on how to best tell a joke); and clever quips, puns, knock-knock jokes, and other funnies from your favorite Scooby characters. You'll have a crowd gathered in no time!
Ever been told not to play with your food? Well, think again. Scooby-Doo and friends are ready to make you laugh out loud!_In this joke ebook, food takes center stage. So chow down with hilarious illustrations; intriguing back matter (including information on how to best tell_a joke); and clever quips, puns, knock-knock jokes, and other funnies from your favorite Scooby characters. You'll have a crowd gathered in no time!
Looking for some monkey business? Scooby-Doo and friends are ready to make you laugh out loud with their hilarious animal jokes. Farm animals, pets, creepy-crawly bugs, underwater creatures, beasts from the wildest habitats, and many other critters are the stars of the show in this joke ebook. With comical illustrations; intriguing back matter (including information on hot to best tell a joke); and clever quips, puns, knock-knock jokes, and other funnies from your favorite Scooby_characters, you're sure to have a crowd gathered in no time!
