Pretty Good Joke Book: A Prairie Home Companion

If you haven't yet experienced one of the annual Prarie Home Companion joke shows, you really owe it to yourself. If you have, you are probably a fan of Garrison Keillor's dry wit and often corny sense of humor. A majority of the jokes told on the shows are contributed by listeners, so they constitute a treasure trove of contemporary American oral culture.In the fifth edition of the PHC joke book, you will find every joke told in all 12 of the joke shows, including hundreds of new ones. They range from the juvenile (puns, knock-knock, yo mama) to the sophisticated (religion, politics, professions), and many of them are uproariously funny. Stereotypes are well-represented: musicians, drunks, lawyers, blondes, doctors, the elderly, cops, and others. If you enjoy laughing, you will find yourself doing so again and again as you read this book.Most of the jokes can be told in mixed company. A few are risqué (boobs, farts, poop), but there aren't any truly filthy or racist items, so those in search of such humor should look elsewhere.The worst response one might get to these jokes is prolonged groaning. But if you choose carefully, you should have 'em chuckling or even roaring with laughter!

Really brightens your day!

If you've heard "A Prairie Home Companion," you know the jokes. Some are just plain funny "out of the box." Others--well, you have to have a knack for telling them. I would have given one more star if only they were only all funny right out of the box. But, then again, if you've got the knack, add a star and buy the book.The cool thing is that this volume is pretty much a collection of all the jokes from all the volumes. So you get the whole treasure horde in one swell foop...er, one smelly poop...oh, you know what I mean.

I gave it four stars because I like Garrison Keillor and because there were some really good Keillor-type jokes in there. But there were some pretty mundane and even childish jokes, too, as if Keillor had set out to fill up 300 pages of paper, and ran out of acceptable material at page 250. I would rather he had stopped at page 250, and I would have been satisfied. The title was appropriate, i.e., "Pretty Good," but not quite up to Keillor's usual standards.

Warning, Abortion joke. If your one who had 10 abortions, excuse me. The joke is not that bad. Bill Clinton sighed his abortion bill. I like to tell the professional speaking jokes at work. The Old standbys to old folks. I have no use for Yo mamma jokes. If you are like me, dry with a frown. Grab any joke book, you might consider a laugh. It is depressing how we can find humor out of making a joke of poor moms. The book is for adults. There are put downs. Don't let the chicken on the cover fool you into thinking every joke is about an egg.

Turn to any page you're going to laugh

If you enjoy the annual joke show of Prairie Home Companion, this 5th edition contains the jokes from the 12 joke shows. Contains a good index of Old Standards (eg. one-liners, knock-knock, third grader jokes); bar jokes; regional jokes (Ole & Lena, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota); in bad taste; professional jokes (lawyer, engineer, economist, police, musician, doctor); power to the people (senior moments, men and women, blonde); joke pourri (political, sporting, jokes from news). There are over 300 jokes in this edition. Worth purchasing.

There is plenty to laugh about in this book. I bought it to email my fiance who is working abroad a joke a day. It has worked for me. Besides using it to entertain my fiance, I found it very entertaining. Of course Garrison Keillor besides writing the introduction probably had no hand in compiling the jokes. But I consider it a bargain.

Very good read - lots of original material and impregnated with GK's voice!

Nice. Good job.