Best of
Funny

1987

Calvin and Hobbes


Bill Watterson - 1987
    This is the first collection of the popular comic strip that features Calvin, a rambunctious 6-year-old boy, and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, who comes charmingly to life.

Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs


Patrick F. McManus - 1987
    He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and takes readers to many exotic locales outdoors and indoors.

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just The Words - Volumes 1 & 2


Graham Chapman - 1987
    The Complete Unexpurgated Scripts of the Original TV Series (Except for the Animation Bits)

A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag


Gordon Korman - 1987
    When luckless Raymond Jardine becomes Sean Delancey's eleventh-grade-English project partner, he persuades Sean's grandfather to pose as a long-deceased, obscure Canadian poet, in an effort to pass the course and win a vacation to a luxurious Greek island.

Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language


Richard Lederer - 1987
    From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors...from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, Anguished English is a treasury of assaults upon our common language.

The Complete Alice & the Hunting of the Snark


Lewis Carroll - 1987
    

Family - The Ties That Bind...And Gag!


Erma Bombeck - 1987
    Erma's conclusion: families—you can't live with them, you can't live without them... or can you?

Shoot Low, Boys--They're Ridin' Shetland Ponies: In Search of True Grit


Lewis Grizzard - 1987
    True Grit, that is. Bestselling humorist and philosopher Lewis Grizzard looked for other Americans with true grit. What he found will make you laugh and perhaps even wipe away a tear. True Grit. The people in this book have it. And so does Lewis Grizzard.

Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy


Barbara Johnson - 1987
    If you need a fresh breath of joy in your life, this book is just the prescription for you.With the wit of an Erma Bombeck, Barbara Johnson helps you to look for "life's little sparkles," even in the midst of your most crippling sorrows. No stranger to suffering herself, Barbara's experiences have equipped her with the credentials to help others work through their own suffering. In spite of her difficulties, Barbara has learned that while pain is inevitable to us all, we can choose to pick the flowers instead of the weeds.Barbara will teach you how to release that bubble of joy within you?to claim God's promise to "fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy." ?Job 8:21 (TLB)

The Raging Tide: Or, the Black Doll's Imbroglio


Edward Gorey - 1987
    For his fans, no more need be said. For those still to be introduced, this is a delightful, astonishing, provocative, laugh-out-loud funny book.

The Powwow Highway


David Seals - 1987
    Their "war pony," a burned-out, rusty, '64 Buick LeSabre, has left a trail of dust from Montana's Lame Deer Reservation halfway down Interstate 25 toward New Mexico. It's a journey of enlightenment, a quest for greatness... and it just might be one of the wildest, funniest, most outrageous rides you've ever been on - a beer-guzzling, joint-smoking, staggering gallop down that twisting road to self-discovery... The Powwow Highway

In Good Company


Gary McKay - 1987
    McKay fashioned his account from his experience in action, leading his platoon. The detail is provided from the 80 letters he wrote to his wife while he served.

Jubilation Gap


Dan Parkinson - 1987
    As far as he knew, no one had a snowball's chance of getting through his hired muscle and hot lead. But he hadn't figured on a pretty schoolma'am from Illinois, or the talents a munitions expert . . .

Culture Made Stupid: A Misguided Tour of Illiterature, Fine & Dandy Arts, & the Subhumanities


Tom Weller - 1987
    

When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old To Care? (MM to TR Promotion)


Lewis Grizzard - 1987
    Nothing is sacred, not even himself: "I figure I have spent five minutes every morning for the past five years blow-drying my hair. That is six days of my life spent with Flash Gordon's ray gun pointed at my brain, which probably has windburn by now!" Whether he is commenting on politics, women or sports, bemoaning technology or mocking Southerners who try to talk like Northerners, Grizzard, "the Faulkner for just plain folks," has never been funnier.Other Lewis Grizzard titles available on Sound Editions from Random House:My daddy was a pistol and I'm a son of a gun Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good myself if love were oil, I'd be about a quart low don't bend over in the garden, Granny, you know them taters got eyes.

Will You Please Feed Our Cat?


James Stevenson - 1987
    Stevenson's expressive, comically suggestive line keeps the story rollicking along.

A Prince of a Guy


Kathleen Korbel - 1987
    Instead, she's mistaken for a princess.The real princess has been kidnapped, and Crown Prince Eric von Lieberhaven insists Casey—a dead ringer for the missing royal—step into the princess's shoes until she can be freed.As Casey upends royal tradition, Eric finds himself hoping the cheeky American never returns home. But can a secretary from Brooklyn really find happiness with a prince?KORBEL CLASSICS: HUMOROUS SERIES, in order#1: The Ice Cream Man#2: Isn't It Romantic?#3: A Prince of a Guy#4: The Princess and the Pea#5: A Fine Madness