Bill And Hillary Humor

It's time we took Bill Clinton seriously. No, really it is. He is, after all, President of the United States and leader of the free world. But The Bill Clinton Joke Book is not the book to do it, choosing instead to fly in the face of all that and to poke (sic) fun at America's First Gentleman and the various women in his life (alledgedly). The first joke book to highlight the career of an American President since, er the one on Ronald Reagan, this book has the creme de la creme of the Bill Clinton jokes, With: *The long and the short of it (straight-forward jokes) *Short, Stubby, Bendy ones (one-liners) *Hillary Wouldn't Like It (Clinton jokes your mother wouldn't like) *The Clinton Files (hilarious Clinton lists) *Clinton's Iambic Pentameter (Clinton Poetry) Outrageous, hilarious, wicked and wonderful, all jokes are, of course, in the very best possible taste.

As president, Bill Clinton is the focus of national attention and, for some, the very embodiment of our hopes and fears. No wonder so many people find him visiting them in their dreams. Julia and Bruce Miller have compiled hundreds of these "dreams of Bill, " by people all across America, and the result is a funny, fascinating, scary, surreal, and often unintentionally poetic collection of subconscious musings about our chief executive. Inspired by their own dreams about Bill Clinton, the Millers placed ads in newspapers around the country to solicit tales from other dreamers. What they compiled is as funny and profound a look at America's collective unconscious as you will ever read. In Dreams of Bill, Clinton is a friend, lover, father, brother, dentist, veterinarian, counselor, robot, alien, and much, much more. He jogs, kisses, cajoles, gives speeches, makes love, wrestles the Antichrist, drills teeth, wears a dress, smokes pot, works at a circus, saves cats, becomes a "being of pure light, " and does just about everything else imaginable. Hillary, Socks, and Chelsea make cameo appearances as well.

From Comedy Central comes a witty satire of self-improvement guides and self-serving political tomes, which provides a wide-ranging look at the flaws, foibles, and absurdities of the American system of government. 16 full-page photos.

Exploring the structure, motives, and meanings of humor in everyday life In Engaging Humor, Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression. Oring scrutinizes classic Jewish jokes, frontier humor, racist cartoons, blonde jokes, and Internet humor. He provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. He also shows how the incongruity and absurdity essential to the production of laughter can serve serious communicative ends. Engaging Humor examines the thoughts that underlie jokes, the question of racist motivation in ethnic humor, and the use of humor as a commentary on social interaction. The book also explores the relationship between humor and sentimentality and the role of humor in forging national identity. Engaging Humor demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.

Hillary Rodham Clinton tells her life story, describing her dedication to social causes, her relationship with her husband, and her accomplishments and difficult periods as First Lady.

The issues of our presidential elections and the virtues and flaws of our candidates come into sharp focus when illuminated by the wit of political observers. America's humorists brighten the electoral scene, reminding us that we needn't always look at presidential campaigns with a solemn air. Thanks to the satiric insights of America's wits, we are able to keep a sense of perspective about the candidates, particularly when their follies and foibles are most intolerable. It is the presidential campaign humor created by America's comedians, humorists, journalists, editorial cartoonists, and the candidates themselves that writer Gerald Gardner celebrates in Campaign Comedy. He reviews the humor, from the caustic to the comedic, that most recently targeted Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot in the explosive 1992 election. He also focuses, in a campaign-by-campaign format, on the humor generated by the presidential campaigns ranging back to the epochal struggle between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Candidates including Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and Lyndon Johnson, and the men they defeated are also the subject of the hilarious or vicious wit that is chronicled here. Campaign Comedy is brimming with relevant and pithy humor from Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, Art Buchwald, Mark Russell, Bob Hope, Mort Sahl, Garry Trudeau, and the closet wits who supplied the presidential candidates with the "spontaneous humor" that they employed during their campaigns. Gardner also highlights the campaign humor of television's most famous political shows, "That Was the Week That Was," "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," and "Saturday Night Live." Gerald Gardner provides a delightful reminder that humor is a basic form of communication through which the media, the humorists, and the candidates convey their skepticism, anger, and differences. He makes it clear why humor is the most essential element in a democracy and why it is the one ingredient that no totalitarian society seems to possess.