Holiday Humor

What do you call a very small valentine? A valentiny! Read more jokes, limericks, riddles, tongue twisters, and fun facts about different holidays! You can also create your own funny greeting card!

Giggle, groan and guffaw with Jaco Jacob’s new humorous series of 101 Jokes books, now available in English! Each book contains tons of jokes that will have you and your friends in stitches.

The Encyclopedia of Humor: A Social History explores the concept of humor in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. This work’s scope encompasses the humor of children, adults, and even nonhuman primates throughout the ages, from crude jokes and simple slapstick to sophisticated word play and ironic parody and satire. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, child development, social psychology, life style history, communication, and entertainment media. Readers will develop an understanding of the importance of humor as it has developed globally throughout history and appreciate its effects on child and adult development, especially in the areas of health, creativity, social development, and imagination. This two-volume set is available in both print and electronic formats. Features & Benefits: The General Editor also serves as Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for The International Society for Humor Studies. The book’s 335 articles are organized in A-to-Z fashion in two volumes (approximately 1,000 pages). This work is enhanced by an introduction by the General Editor, a Foreword, a list of the articles and contributors, and a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically. A Chronology of Humor, a Resource Guide, and a detailed Index are included. Each entry concludes with References/Further Readings and cross references to related entries. The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and cross references between and among related entries combine to provide robust search-and-browse features in the electronic version. This two-volume, A-to-Z set provides a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers in such diverse fields as communication and media studies, sociology and anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, history, literature and linguistics, and popular culture and folklore.

How do trees get on the internet? They log in. What type of music are balloons afraid of? Pop music! Young comedians love to share hilari- ous, side-splitting jokes with anyone who will listen. These witty kids are always looking for new material, hungry for the next best thing. Satisfy their comic needs with Best. Jokes. Ever., a brand-new collection of laughs, giggles, and guffaws. Beware--it is sure entertain for days to come!

Kids love jokes--reading them, learning them, and sharing them. Curated by the editors of Highlights(TM), this brand-new collection of 365 rib-tickling, laugh-out-loud jokes is guaranteed to bring loads of giggles to children and their grown-ups. Hilarious black-and-white cartoons round out the fun. What does a duck eat with soup? Quackers, of course! This uproarious humor collection features 365 sidesplitting riddles and jokes--with lots of funny cartoons to add to the fun. Kids will love amusing themselves--and friends and family--with this hilarious collection of jokes in a wide range of topics.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer will warm readers’ hearts and spread the wonder of the holiday season with its tales of love and joy. A fantastic holiday gift for the young and young at heart. Everyone loves Christmas and the holiday season. We reunite scattered family members, watch the wonder in a child’s eyes, and feel the joy of giving gifts. The rituals of the holiday season give a rhythm to the years and create a foundation for our lives, as we gather with family, with our communities at church, at school, and even at the mall, to share the special spirit of the season, brightening those long winter days. “Santa-safe” for kids!

Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors. Viewing the comic repertory as a richly varied yet broadly unified whole, Levin provides a synthesis of theories and practice. Isolating two fundamental aspects of comedy--the ludicrous and irreverent "playboy," whom we laugh with, and the ridiculous and forbidding "killjoy," whom we laugh at--he traces the dialectical interplay of these components throughout history and across various cultures and media. While mainly focusing on the plays and the stage, with discussions of such major dramatists as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Moli?re, and William Congreve, Levin also includes essays on such related topics as humor, satire, and games.