Best of
Funny

1985

The Hitchhiker's Trilogy


Douglas Adams - 1985
    The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.The restaurant at the end of the universe.Life, the universe and everything.

The Grasshopper Trap


Patrick F. McManus - 1985
    In a collection of spoofs on outdoor life, the author explains how to construct a grasshopper trap, the many uses of a skunk ladder, and how to become a human fuel pump.

Swimming to Cambodia


Spalding Gray - 1985
    In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous.”—The New York TimesIn 2004, we mourned the loss of one of America’s true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Gray’s legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well as for future generations of fans and readers. Originally published in 1985, Swimming to Cambodia is reissued here 20 years later in a new edition as a tribute to Gray’s singular artistry.Writer, actor and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of Sex and Death to the Age 14; Monster in a Box; It’s a Slippery Slope; Gray’s Anatomy and Morning, Noon and Night, among other works. His appearance in The Killing Fields was the inspiration for his Swimming to Cambodia, which was also filmed by Jonathan Demme.

Science Made Stupid: How to Discomprehend the World Around Us


Tom Weller - 1985
    Science Made Stupid is a book that teaches one how to discomprehend the world around us!

Mortimer Says Nothing


Joan Aiken - 1985
    Jone's Rest Cure / A Call at the Joneses'.

Late Night with David Letterman: The Book


Merrill Markoe - 1985
    Lots of pictures from the older Late Night Show.

On the Road With Lewis Grizzard/Audio Cassette


Lewis Grizzard - 1985
    

Midway on the Waves: Diaries, 1948-1949


James Lees-Milne - 1985
    

The Zaniest Riddle Book in the World


Joseph Rosenbloom - 1985
    "GR.3 up. Mr. Rosenbloom, will you ever run dry? My third graders sincerely hope not."--SLJ. "Students of all ages will love it!"--Book Report. 128 pages, 86 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Famous People I Have Known


Ed McClanahan - 1985
    Ed McClanahan's hilarious classic introduces us to writers and revolutionaries, hippies and honkies, gurus and go-go girls, barkeeps and barflies, as well as Carlos Toadvine, aka Little Enis, the All-American Left-Handed Upside-down Guitar Player, among the characters he has encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and literary worlds from his native Kentucky to the West Coast (where his compatriots included Ken Kesey and Tom Wolfe) and back again.

Wouldn't It Be Funny If


Mik Brown - 1985