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Summary: COMIC GENIUS!!
Review: This book is unbelievably funny--especially the crude sex jokes! I made of giant color xerox of the Britney Spears poster even though my girlfriend doesn't think it's funny.This is the best humor book I've read since ITEMS FROM OUR CATALOG. I'm also a biog fan of MY FIRST PRESIDENTIARY. I can't wait to buy the next Modern Humorist book!
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Summary: unacceptably vulgar far too often
Review: When this book is good, it is very good. Other times, it aims but misses its mark--perhaps because of too-gentle editing, perhaps because a reader might be clueless about what's going on. But about one time in ten, it crosses the line into outright poor taste. One of my teenage daughters bought this for another daughter for Christmas, and once we got a glimpse of its periodic in-your-face grossness, we all were very sorry that we'd brought it into our home. I am a writer myself (including comedy), and I'm not pleased at what books like this reveal about what's happened to the national standard of humor over the last decade or so. In times gone by, you could count on books like these (if not the writers, then the editors) to dance along the edge without crossing it so blatantly. But now, it's as though if a book simply "tries to be funny," then everything is OK, meaning those of us who take offense are somehow "the problem." Especially after 911, it's time for some of us to stand up to this attitude, and this gross drift in the national standard of humor. One star. It's too bad, because without the vulgarity, nearly everyone would enjoy this book. The writers are clearly very clever people who are capable of much better.
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