Best of
Funny

1978

A Fine and Pleasant Misery


Patrick F. McManus - 1978
    McManus.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School


Louis Sachar - 1978
    There was a terrible mistake - Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor.

Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue


G.B. Trudeau - 1978
    Reprints DOONESBURY comic strips from 1975-7.

Six of One


Rita Mae Brown - 1978
    Then of course, there’re Louise and Julia, the boldly eccentric Hunsenmeir sisters. Wheezie and Juts spend their whole lives in Runnymede, cheerfully quibbling about everything from men to child-rearing to how to drive a car. But they never let small-town life keep them from chasing their biggest dreams—or from being true to who they really are. Sparkling with a perfect combination of sisterhood and sass, Six of One is a richly textured Southern canvas—Rita Mae Brown “at her winning, fondest best”(Kirkus Reviews).

Tiny Footprints


B. Kliban - 1978
    Visual jokes and puns, fantasies and long thoughts-taking the reader to here, there, and Nirvana (sometimes with a side trip to Portland). A New York Times bestseller. 248,000 copies in print.

Another Fine Myth


Robert Lynn Asprin - 1978
    Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, he's on a quest to get even.

The Street Where I Live: A Memoir


Alan J. Lerner - 1978
    Lerner, one of America’s most acclaimed and popular lyricists. Large-hearted, humorous, and often poignant in its reverence for a celebrated era in the American theater, this is the story of what Lerner calls "the sundown of wit, eccentricity, and glamour." Try as he might to keep himself out of these pages, Lerner reveals himself to be a man of great talent, laughter, and love. Along the way, we meet a sensational supporting cast: Moss Hart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, and Maurice Chevalier, to name a few. They are seen in moments of triumph and disaster, but all are professionals at the creation of theater. And the creation of theater is the matrix of this wonderful book. Included are the complete lyrics to My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot.

Is There a Doctor in the Zoo?


David Taylor - 1978
    

And Then We'll Get Him!


Gahan Wilson - 1978
    

A Handful of Summers


Gordon Forbes - 1978
    It's a delightfully uninhibited insider's account of tennis on the international circuit - both on and off the court - in the fifties and sixties, the glory days of Fred Perry, Roy Emerson, and Virginia Wade. Forbes begins with his childhood on a farm in South Africa, where he learned to play tennis on a gravel court. His game takes him to Europe, as a South Africa Davis Cup player, and finally to Wimbledon. Along the way he cavorts with extraordinary characters among the world-class players, and their tales, and his, shine throughout this memoir of irresistible wit and humility.

The Twenty-Elephant Restaurant


Russell Hoban - 1978
    A man builds a new table sturdy enough for an elephant to dance on and works up to a restaurant with twenty dancing elephants.

The Very Very Very Long Dog


H.E. Todd - 1978
    Humphrey becomes a very very very long dog after an accident involving an escalator.

Macgoose's Grocery


Frank Asch - 1978
    MacGoose leaves the store and her egg in the care of Mr. MacGoose, who leaves them in the care of Junior, who leaves them in the care of Sis, who also gets tired watching store and egg.