Includes humorous writings by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, Woody Allen, Jean Shepherd, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Flannery O'Connor, Nathanael West, Donald Barthelme, Bernard Malamud, Joseph Heller, Benjamin Franklin, Seba Smith, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Bill Nye, Finley Peter Dunne, Will Rogers, Art Buchwald, Langston Hughes, Washington Irving, A.B. Longstreet, T.B. Thorpe, Joel Chandler Harris, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Paul Laurence Dunbar, George Ade, Ambrose Bierce, Vaudeville Sketch, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Alexander Woollcott, The Firesign Theatre, Dick Allen, Don Marquis, Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, Ring Lardner, Russell Baker, Peter De Vries, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Judith Viorst, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Louis Kronenberger, Constance Rourke, James Agee, Arthur Asa Berger, Horace Newcomb, and Ihab Hassan.