{"id":10259,"date":"2011-10-24T08:03:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2011-10-23T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:05:29","slug":"book-report-great-quotes-great-comedians-compiled-by-michael-ryan-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/book-report-great-quotes-great-comedians-compiled-by-michael-ryan-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Great Quotes, Great Comedians<\/i> compiled by Michael Ryan (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/greatquotesgreatcomedians.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">This is a simple book of one liners from famous comedians (circa 1996).  The quotations are presented one to a page, and the book itself is comb-bound.  So this is not Bartlett&#8217;s by any stretch.<\/p>\n<p>The book chooses one liners from great comedians, and the selection has held up.  You got your Carson, you got your Carlin, you got your&#8230;. Richard Lewis?  Well, it is a book from 1996.  Some of us in the Jeopardy! contestant pool remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096534\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Anything But Love<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/QAHatesYou\/status\/127193006955700224\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> one of the quotes in the book by Steve Martin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you study philosophy in school, you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With any such book, I think that&#8217;s the measure of its worth.<\/p>\n<p>So definitely worth a browse.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0806903244&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple book of one liners from famous comedians (circa 1996). The quotations are presented one to a page, and the book itself is comb-bound. So this is not Bartlett&#8217;s by any stretch. The book chooses one liners from great comedians, and the selection has held up. You got your Carson, you got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10262,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions\/10262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}