Ever needed a good joke to emphasize a point or warm up an audience, but couldn’t find one? Want to make your kids or grandkids laugh? Do you like to laugh at jokes that aren’t suggestive? Fred Stoutland has compiled such humor over the past 50 years and has now put the best of them in categories for people like you. Great for the coffee table!

Some random examples:

“Is this the Fire Department” asked the caller. The operator answered that it was. The caller cried, “My house is on fire! You’ve got to come right away!” The operator replied, “We’ll come as soon as you tell us how to get there.” Astonished, the caller asked, “Don’t you have those red trucks anymore?”

Golf is a game that requires an iron nerve. Only such a person can look his opponent in the eye and say: “That was a practice swing.”

The church I presently attend welcomes all denominations, but especially twenties and fifties.

My wife loves to spend money. Every department store in town knows her. When she gets sick, they all send her “get well” cards.

When the man looked at the high menu prices, he turned to his date and said, “And what will you have my plump little darling?”

You know you are in some parts of Oklahoma or Arkansas if…a tornado hits town and does $100,000 of improvements.

I once knew Siamese twins, but they moved to England so the other one could drive.

Overweight is just something that snacks up on you.

THERE ARE ONE THOUSAND LIMERICKS, ILLUSTRATIONS,
ANECDOTES, AND ONE-LINERS IN THE BOOK