Product Description

Here is the most extensive collection of jokes ever compiled of Friars Club members and other comedians, covering every imaginable subject, from aging to dieting, fashion to fathers, birth control to male anatomy. Includes selections from nearly 400 of the best comic minds of this century. The perfect reference for toast-makers, speech-writers, or anyone looking for a good laugh.

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A smile for the day...        Rating:

Since everyone can use a funny line to make the day at work go by this book definately achieves that goal. I gave the book to the Administrative Assistant of the office and once a day he picks a one liner or a quick joke to put on the board for everyone to read as they go by the front desk.

The Friars Club Enclyopedia of Jokes is Great!!!        Rating:

If you only have one book to buy, this is the book of jokes that every comic should have next to the comedy Bible. Absolutely first rate...and printed in a format that was easy to read and in categories that were easy to follow. Chuckles on every page.

well organized        Rating:

a well organized collection of older and newer material. good as i reference or an tntro to jokesmithing.

Find a laugh at the place that you need it        Rating:

Georgie Jessel would have loved this book. He was endlessly talking of the 'Friar's Club' in his old routines. But the truth is this book has quite a bit of material which comes from other sources. Never mind. There are jokes here for every situation and every occasion. The one- liners are conveniently indexed under subject making it easy to decide to be amused about something and finding a particular subject.
This is of course a book not to be ' read through' but rather dipped into here and there when one feels like a little chuckle or smile. There is however some bad taste dirty stuff which a number of readers have complained about, and which the editor might have done without. Of course in doing so he would have taken out one major element of 'Friar's Club ' humor.
Usually I find something disheartening about joke- books especially if they are too 'low in spirit'. I prefer a kind of mild humor as exemplified by this kind of joke.
"Behind every successful man , stands an amazed woman"
The work is not all jokes and has little stories and anecdotes also.
Enjoy.

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