May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American HumorNutritiousness aside, May Contain Nuts provides 100% of the daily recommended amount of that essential life-enhancer, laughter. With more than 70 contributors and 150 shots from the loose canon of American humor, it's a stellar edition with plenty of real stars from stage and screen(writing): • Seinfeld's Peter Mehlman • Hairspray's Mark O'Donnell • Ed's Michael Ian Black • and the world's most famous drive-in movie critic, Joe Bob Briggs Plus, there's Roy Blount Jr. on how to travel "Southern" outside the South; summer recipes from our man in the kitchen, Henry Alford; Firesign Theatre's Phil Austin's yuletide "Tale of the Old Detective"; P. J. O'Rourke's not-so-intimate "Diary of a Country Gentleman"; Daniel Radosh's "PowerPoint Anthology of Literature"; and Tom Gliatto's helpful overview of today's thriving cabaret scene. With umpteen illustrations, many perplexing charts, and our first centerfold ever, this volume is party-sized for your reading pleasure. New in This Issue
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Contents
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If the Camel Melts I Spy Federalism 33 | 33 |
DAVID MARTIN | 179 |
Sweden vs Clairvoyancy | 185 |
MICHAEL MARTONE | 188 |
PETER MEHLMAN | 200 |
This Clam Is Near Death | 202 |
BRYAN J MILLER | 210 |
MARK ODONNELL | 217 |
P J OROURKE | 239 |
ANDREW BARLOW | 34 |
MICHAEL IAN BLACK | 37 |
An asterisk denotes stardom and the fact that the May Contain | 40 |
ROY BLOUNT | 44 |
KIM McCANN | 55 |
NANCY COHEN | 56 |
bedandbreakfast Henry Alford page 4 | 58 |
JILL A DAVIS | 64 |
ELLIS DICKERSON | 70 |
Madrigals vs Freshness | 80 |
TOM GLIATTO | 87 |
Are You Tangential? 126 | 94 |
BEN GREENMAN | 102 |
BOB HIRSHON | 123 |
Shakespeares Hamlet Daniel Radosh page 287 | 127 |
MARC JAFFE | 136 |
MERLE KESSLER | 140 |
Life AfterTed | 148 |
DANNY LIEBERT | 152 |
KURT LUCHS | 164 |
MABEL MANEY | 171 |
ED PAGE | 253 |
NEIL PASRICHA | 268 |
LOUIS PHILLIPS | 276 |
NEAL POLLACK | 282 |
LAURIE ROSENWALD | 294 |
Towels vs Catholicsm | 304 |
STEPHEN SHERRILL | 308 |
BETH TEITELL | 316 |
doughnuts Stephanie Brooks page 48 | 319 |
RICHARD THOMPSON | 322 |
64305 | 334 |
JOHN WARNER | 339 |
JUSTIN WARNER | 350 |
Buttered Whale? | 358 |
Late Late Show | 369 |
MIRTH OF A NATION TEACHERS COMPANION | 372 |
Index by Marc Jaffe and Peter Gaido | 397 |
Contributor Notes | 417 |
Andrew Marlatt | 423 |
Permissions | 433 |