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Product DescriptionThis debut collection ofThe Best American Humor celebrates the funniest short stories, essays, articles, and excerpts of the past year. The more than 40 entries in this edition feature some of the most well-known wits and humorists, including Garry Trudeau, Russell Baker, Paul Rudnick, Douglas Coupland, Garrison Keillor, Conan O'Brien, Philip Roth, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and John Updike among others. Edited by Moshe Waldoks, who co-edited the bestsellingThe Big Book of Jewish Humor andThe Big Book of New American Humor, this volume -- the only "best of the year" humor anthology -- is a hilarious, cynical, witty, sarcastic, and laugh-out-loud look at the funny side of existence and survival.The Best American Humor 1994 is sure to delight all lovers of fun and laughter.ContributorsJerry AdlerMeredith AnthonyRussell BakerStanley BingT. Coraghessan BoyleRon CarlsonMark ChildressAndrei CodrescuDouglas CouplandJim CrottyAmanda FilipacchiKaren FinleyIan FrazierFrank GannonJim GarnerLibby Gellman-WaxnerVeronica GengMolly GilesRobert GrossmanMichael GuinzbergCynthia HeimelRobin HemleyHarold JaffeGarrison KeillorMike LaneBryon LanningMark LeynerGordon LishBruce McCallDaniel MendelsohnRon NyswanerConan O'BrienEmily PragerPhilip RothPaul RudnickCathleen SchineSteve SternLinda SunshineGarry TrudeauJohn UpdikeWendy WassersteinFrom the Back CoverThis debut collection of "The Best American Humor" celebrates the funniest short stories, essays, articles, and excerpts of the past year. The more than 40 entries in this edition feature some of the most well-known wits and humorists, including Garry Trudeau, Russell Baker, Paul Rudnick, Douglas Coupland, Garrison Keillor, Conan O'Brien, Philip Roth, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and John Updike among others. Edited by Moshe Waldoks, who co-edited the bestselling "The Big Book of Jewish Humor" and "The Big Book of New American Humor", this volume-- the only "best of the year" humor anthology-- is a hilarious, cynical, witty, sarcastic, and laugh-out-loud look at the funny side of existence and survival. "The Best American Humor 1994" is sure to delight all lovers of fun and laughter.From Kirkus Reviews``Lady vampires demand their own blood bank!'' Not one to let shame get in the way of compiling a funny book, Waldoks (co-editor, The Big Book of Jewish Humor, not reviewed) even looks at the front page of the Weekly World News, the tabloid of tabloids, from which he pulled the above headline. Also in the ``Miscellaneous'' section of mostly found humor are headlines from real newspapers (``Prostitutes appeal to pope''; ``Survivor of Siamese twins joins parents'') and a gag about not putting ``Descartes before the horse.'' Waldoks has also collected articles and essays by the likes of Emily Prager, Stanley Bing, and Douglas Coupland; sketches and short fiction from folks as diverse as Garrison Keillor and Karen Finley, the two of whom surely never expected to find themselves together between the covers (of the same book); and excerpts from longer works by Philip Roth, Andrei Codrescu, and others. Funny stuff, in all shapes and sizes, some of it cornball camp and some of it sophisticated. --Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.About the AuthorMoshe Waldoks is the co-editor of the bestsellingThe Big Book of Jewish Humor andThe Big Book of New American Humor. He lives in Massachusetts.