Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom.In the midst of World War II, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing character--animal and human alike--Herriot enthralls with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn.Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world.

    The good wit of bad manners, elegantly spiced with irony and deftly controlled malice, has made Saki stories small, perfect gems of the English language. Here for the first time, are the collected writings of Saki--including all of his short stories ("Reginald", "Reginald in Russia", "The Chronicles of Clovis", "Beasts and Super-Beasts" "The Toys of Peace", and "The Square Egg"), his three novels (THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON, WHEN WILLIAM CAME and THE WESTMINSTER ALICE), and three plays (THE DEATHTRAP, KARL-LUDWIG'S WINDOW and THE WATCHED POT. You are invited to meet once again Clovis, Reginald, the Unbearable Bassington, and the other memorable characters etched so superbly by the pen of H.H. Munro. "In all literature, he was the first to employ successfully a wildly outrageous premise in order to make a serious point. I love that. And today the best of his stories are still better than the best of just about every other writer around."--Roald Dahl. Introduction by Noel Coward.(less)

    These hefty collections of favorite authors feature their best work, reset from the original first editions that were approved by the authors themselves.

    His immediately recognizable style--featuring bulbous noses, wild sound effects, and the legendary "hinged feet"--was filled with broad and daring slapstick and routinely broke new ground. A surprisingly quiet man, Martin's work spoke volumes as he left an indelible mark on several generations, influencing the style of many illustrators while shaping the sense of humor of countless misguided youths. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004. Says Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side: "Don Martin was the one who really stood out."Now, it is with great pride that Running Press, in collaboration with MAD, launches the MAD’s Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin (MAD’s Greatest Artists Series). For the first time ever, here is the complete collection of every piece of art Don Martin published in MAD throughout his extraordinary thirty-year tenure (1957-1987). With all of Martin's strips, covers, posters, and stickers--presented in chronological order--it is nothing less than a masterpiece of comic genius. Complementing Martin's opus of published works are letters, sketches, and rare photos providing an in-depth look at the artist at work. Plus, scattered throughout are notes and original illustrations--commissioned for this volume--paying tribute to the artist and penned by MAD's most-notable personalities, including Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, Sergio Aragonés, and more. There are also notes by the likes of Jim Davis (Garfield) and a foreword by Gary Larson. A collector's item and object d'art in its own right, this deluxe two-volume slipcased edition will be the season's must-have gift book for the millions whose childhoods--and subsequent adulthoods--would not have been the same without MAD MAGAZINE and Don Martin.

    I mean thigh-slapping, roll-on-the-ground, can’t-catch-my-breath howling. And every time I go back to it, I find some new detail to chuckle at.”—Charles M. Young, Rolling Stone.

    With his hilarious wordplay and zany illustrations, Fred Gwynne keeps children of all ages in stitches!

    In five brief episodes two hippos confirm their friendship: “The Fibber,” “The Experiment,” “The Picnic,” “The Scary Movie!,” and “The Secret Club.”

    It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.

    Wodehouse's wittiest and most enduring character.On this brilliantly played recording, Jeeves is portrayed by Roger Livesey while Terry-Thomas plays Bertie. Supported by an excellent cast, these actors render two vintage stories: Jeeves Takes Charge, in which Jeeves helps Bertie avoid marriage to a forbiddingly high-brow woman, and Indian Summer of an Uncle, a tale that finds Jeeves performing a similar service for Bertie's uncle, who must be rescued from the clutches of a silly young girl.Wodehouse's sparkling prose is meant to be read out loud, and this fine recording brings his sardonic humor to life as it ³conjures up a world of tea-trays, formidable aunts, rich uncles, romantic spinsters, and understated satire as British as tweed,² according to The Patriot Leader.

    

    Unfortunately…the Tarantula becomes one of Spidey's deadliest foes!

    Lucy raises the craft of crabbiness to new heights, Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown tries to work up the nerve to talk to the little red-haired girl at school, and Snoopy spends some time in the hospital.

    Once again, the Addams paradox is in full flower- here are cartoons that chill the spine while they lighten the heart. The range of Charles Addams' diabolical humor is wider than ever before, for Favorite Haunts doesn't concentrate so completely upon the sinister family as did the previous books, but wanders far and wide to other creaking mansions, graveyards, three-inch-high peope in interesting circumstances, and a number of jolly backgrounds such as the river Styx.

    First collection of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strips, including The Freak Brothers Pull a Heist and The Freak Brothers Go To College, plus several shorter strips.

    He is photographed with family, friends and other stars.

    

    Book by Crumb, Robert

    Wodehouse, the greatest humorous writer of his age. These selections are adapted from Duke's stage show performed worldwide. Includes 4 Jeeves stories: Jeeves Takes Charge, The Chump Cyril, Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg, and Bertie Changes His Mind. 2 cassettes. 2 hours. Quite an audiobook! The stories are unabridged.

    A hot hustler is searching for a million-dollar Aztec sculpture that is accidentally mixed with cheap plaster copies. From Harlem to Greenwich, a motley cast chases the lost piece.

    

    

    Entering another world through a toy store, Gregory joins the beautiful knight Sir Rosemary and a gourmet named Bear on a journey involving princesses, dragons, magic spells, and hidden passages.

    Contains Epilogue mentioning Vietnam (1967).

    Every Ibanskian citizen is named Iban Ibanovich Ibanov, and therefore goes by a nickname as Chatterer, Slanderer, Boss, Hog, Truthteller, Dauber, Sociologist, and many others. Truth Teller is obviously Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Boss is Stalin, Hog is Khrushchev. Lesser characters are more difficult to figure out. Ibansk roughly translates into English as 'Screw Town of (or for) all Ivans'. Their political religion is called the Ism (which is short for Soc-ism), and nobody really believes in it. When it was written the book was essentially a superlative description of the Soviet Union.

    A sportswriter by trade, Lardner was widely known for his superb ear for the regional peculiarities of speech and notoriously loved for his humor. A must for anyone interested in classic American fiction, Some Champions shares many of Lardner’s classic tales focused on the quirks and pathos of human beings, including their daily turmoils and small triumphs.

    Pogo and the inhabitants of the Okefenokee Swamp concern themselves with the problems of pollution, love, and politics.

    Book by Rounds, Glen

    A selection of cartoons including those in which Peppermint Patty flies Snoopy's Sopwith camel in the Powder Puff Derby.

    104 plates, 8 in color. Introduction, captions, notes by Draper Hill.

    

    As Jean Shepherd puts it in his insightful foreword, "great reputations exist in the theater or the novel on far less profound and effective work than Rhymer's. In fact, he probably wrote more funny lines in one month of daily scripts than the combined output of five of the leading playwrights of modern times." He also notes that "these works were written to be performed, and yet in spite of that they come alive, snapping and crackling, off the page. Rhymer reads better than any of the so-called ' serious' writers of his era. The Vic & Sade scripts are not only still fresh and funny, but are absolutely recognizable as an authentic picture of American life which persists in millions of homes today." Shepherd is right on the money -- and I defy you to read such gems as "Sade and Ruthie Each Mail the Other a Five-Dollar Bill" or "Applying for a $4.80 Refund from the Lodge" without dissolving into a helpless fit of giggling. If you can resist this stuff, you've got a cavity where your funny-bone oughta be.

    PAPERBACK

    Not an easy task, you might think, and in translating Alphonse Allais into English, Miles Kington set himself a similar challenge. He carried it off with panache. As Max Harrison said in The Times, '... has done a difficult job well, even preserving some of Allais's puns'. Alphonse Allais has been described as the greatest humorous writer ever. In the words of Lisa Appignanesi, 'Allais was a consummate absurdist. From an ordinary phenomenon, simple sentiment or situation, he would logically deduce the looniest, most macabre and most unexpected result ... His humour kept all Paris, high and low, waiting breathlessly for the paper which would carry his next tale ...' On first publication, in 1976, Clive James in the Observer said 'Allais has been dead 70 years but his mocking tone ensures him a permanently relevant after-life'. And John Sturrock in the New Statesman, 'Allais stands, along with Jarry, at the head of the most dazzling and highly educated tradition of French humour, as witty as it is whimsical'. Faber Finds offers this rare book as a tribute not only to Alphonse Allais but also Miles Kington, two great humorists in tandem.

    For every plant, there's a person.And as Ziggy, that happy-go-lucky, world-famous cartoon character, says: Plants are some of my favorite people!So if you've ever raised any little seedlings of your own, or taken care of someone else's for a while, you'll find yourself nodding and laughing over Ziggy's antics with his leafy pals. And don't be surprised if while you're reading and chuckling, a friendly fern or two starts peeking over your shoulder. After all, as Ziggy would tell you, "Plants are people, too!"Tom Wilson, writer, illustrator, painter, and creator of Ziggy, is also the Vice President of the Creative Division at American Greetings Corporation.

    or we'll pop our cork!

    Harpo Marx once described him as something that got loose from the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. And Irma Selz, who sketched him, said he gave the impression of a great stuffed owl. But it was not just his formidable appearance that made Aleck a distinctive figure. For Woollcoot was a true American original.One fo the most charismatic personalities of his or any other time, Alexander Woollcott helped set the literary and theatrical standards of the nation from the 1920's through the early 1940's. A man of arsenic wit and impeccable taste, he served as a drama critic for The New York Times, founded the Algonquin Round Table, became radio's first superstar as the Town Crier, and was immortalized as Sheridan Whiteside in the now classic comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.

    Fein, Jack’s personal manager, and with an introduction by George Burns.When Americans heard the rasping strains of “Love in Bloom” and the first long-drawn-out, perfectly timed “Well!” they sat back and prepared to laugh at that dean of comedians Jack Benny. Now Irving Fein, Jack’s friend for twenty-eight years, reaches behind the persona of “the world’s worst violin player” and “the stingiest man in in show business” to write about Jack Benny the man: a gentle, generous, yet serious person who loved to make people laugh and who loved to laugh himself.It’s all here – the best anecdotes of a half century in show business, the enduring friendships with stars as well as everyday people, his long and happy marriage to Mary Livingstone. Anyone who ever laughed at or with Jack Benny will treasure this perspective, revealing tribute to a man who represented humor itself, a man whose voice characterized the laughter of an age – Mr. Jack Benny.

    edition. British publication by Hart-Davis, McGibbon Ltd ('76).-- A companion to The Best of Myles, Further Cuttings culls more scathing selections from "Cruiskeen Lawn", Flann O'Brien's column in the Irish Times written under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen.-- This volume covers the years 1947-1957 and finds O'Brien's alter ego clashing with the law on numerous charges, including larceny, using bad language, and marrying without the consent of his parents. It also includes several bizarre obituaries, witty criticisms of George Bernard Shaw, Sean O' Faolain, and other literary figures, the return of the preposterous "Brother", and the first article ever ascribed to Myles (published in 1940).

    

    

    JACOB - Papa. He owns a failing department store, which he plans to have burned down by a lifelong friend, who happens to be insane. RUTH - Mama. A Very spaced-out lady, She lives inher own world and her idea of a social evening is to throw a small funeral, say for thirty people. EZRA - The eldest son. A total failure at being a basketball coach. Then he spots a black street-court player who is phenomenal. He adopts him. HARRY - The younger son. A nebbish whose dream is to get into a shiksa's good graces as soon as possible. HERMA - The daughter. No beauty she. As a child she was mistaken for a monkey by the local organ grinder."

    Alfred is a truly remarkable, friendly cat who owns a tree of bird song, believes in education, and might even have lived nine lives.

    An illustrated compendium of humorous facts such as the recipe for oxygen tart and an explanation of how man evolved from small rocks.

    

    Features exercises demonstrated by your favorite Marvel characters like The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four and many more!

    

    Who says that Christianity has to be dull to be authentic? Not Charlene Potterbaum, that's for sure! This book is filled with the living and hilarious testimonies of a family that has learned to see that God is in control in every circumstance, even those that seem most "out-of-it".