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A few words can lose the room—or bring everyone together in a laugh.
Jokes For All Occasions gathers short humorous pieces for dinners, parties, meetings and family gatherings. This anonymous collection offers setups, punchlines, puns and small comic scenes, each short enough to remember. Rather than following one story, you dip into pieces meant to be told aloud and shared with the people around you.
The collection explores humour through the listener, timing and brevity, the mood of different occasions, and the reasons old jokes endure. Vanity, hunger, haggling, misunderstandings and small mistakes supply familiar comic ground. Behind the punchlines sits a simple idea: a joke starts with the person who hears it, not just the person who tells it.
What you’ll discover
- The listener comes first Consider the people around you before choosing the funny story you want to share.
- The power of brevity Explore how a short setup keeps attention on the way to the punchline.
- Humour for the occasion Think about the different moods of a wedding, a business lunch and a family dinner.
- Familiar human follies Find comic possibilities in vanity, misunderstandings and the gap between plans and what happens.
- Wit to pass along Enjoy puns and small comic scenes that invite you to remember them and share.
Who will love it
Perfect for anyone who is asked to say a few words at a dinner, a club or a wedding, and for readers who enjoy short comic scenes, quick retorts and the humor of an earlier America.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Build every joke around its punch line
- Good storytellers are made by practice
- Old stories serve better than new ones
- Surprise lies at the heart of wit and humor
- Every nation has its own flavor of comedy
- Sort your jokes by the subject at hand
- Children say the funniest true things
- Marriage and the home supply endless material
- Money, doctors and lawyers get the gentle needle
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Chistes para toda ocasión
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An inventor leaps from a balloon, then frets over his forgotten umbrella.
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An absentminded inventor leaps from a balloon wearing his new parachute, then regrets that he has forgotten his umbrella. That is one of hundreds of quick tales in Jokes For All Occasions, an anonymous collection from the years of Prohibition.
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Build every joke around its punch line
The preface says there are two ways to tell a story. One is very brief and leans on the punch line. The other builds up the tale first, so that the ending crowns it. A beginner, the author advises, should choose the brief way and say only what the listener needs.
The preface also offers an old Chinese tale about how humor crosses borders. A man wearing a thief's collar explains that he only picked up a scrap of rope beside a canal. He cannot see why the punishment is so harsh, unless perhaps an ox was tied to the other end. Everything before that last detail exists to make it land.
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What is Jokes For All Occasions about?
It is a collection of short jokes and anecdotes arranged alphabetically by subject, with a preface that teaches how to tell a story well. The topics range from absentmindedness and appetite to marriage, money and travel.
Who wrote Jokes For All Occasions?
The author is anonymous. The book is a compilation, and its preface speaks for an unnamed writer who gathers older tales and newspaper humor, and credits well known wits such as Voltaire, Lamb, Twain and Lincoln.
How are the jokes arranged in the book?
The jokes sit under subject headings in alphabetical order. Each heading names the topic the story can illustrate, which makes it easy to find a joke for a speech, a toast or an argument.
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