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The comic encyclopedia:

a library of the literature and history of humor containing thousands of gags, sayings, and stories
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Doubleday, Nov 1, 1978 - Humor - 831 pages

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Contents

ALLITERATIVE
22
ALICE IN ALPHABETISM
28
CONTENTS Kill CONTENTS
40
Copyright

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ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE alliterative alphabet alphagram ALPHONSE AND GASTON American amusing ancient Andy Capp animal ANTI-PUNSTER aphorism ARCHY AND MEHITABEL asked Athenaeus audience bastard BERNERS STREET HOAX black comedy BLUE COMEDY bore born loser bumper sticker CACOGRAPHY called cannibal caricature century later character clever clown comedian comic definitions comic strip comicultural creature cried dictionary English especially fable famous father fool funny girl Greek horse humor husband jestbook jocular jokelore laugh laughter letter literature look Mark Twain marriage marry mother never night once person played popular practical joke proverb puns punster punword quips replied rhyme riddle satire Shakespeare shows specimens spelling story talk tells term There's thing tion told trick ture turned tury vaudeville verse W. C. Fields wife witty woman word wordplay wrote young

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TitleThe comic encyclopedia: a library of the literature and history of humor containing thousands of gags, sayings, and stories
AuthorEvan Esar
PublisherDoubleday, 1978
ISBN0385062052, 9780385062053
Length831 pages
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Humor / Form / Essays
Humor / General
Wit and humor
  
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