Prologue
Funny
Nagueyalti Warren
Creating Context
You Have to Be There • Comedy: A Serious Business • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Makes You Laugh?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating
- Memories of Dating (newspaper column)
- Dave Barry
- The Adoption of Albert (short story)
- Barbara Robinson
- Say Good Night, Gracie (comedy sketch)
- George Burns and Gracie Allen
- Beware the Ides of November (short story)
- Ellen Conford
- Letters from a Nut (letters)
- Ted L. Nancy
Cluster Two: How Is Humor Used?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- Fish Eyes (autobiography)
- David Brenner
- Life's a Sketch (article)
- Michael Neill and Bob Calandra
- What's Alien You? (satire)
- Dave Barry
- Pancakes (short story)
- Joan Bauer
- Humor Helps (article)
- Carolyn J. Gard
- Money: Too Tight to Mention (comedy monologue)
- Sinbad
Cluster Three: What Are Some Types of Humor?
Thinking Skill: Classifying
- 'toon Time (cartoons)
- Youngest Child Tries to Tell a Joke (newspaper column)
- Erma Bombeck
- Word Wit (nonfiction collection)
- various authors
- The Clown (short story)
- Patrick F. McManus
- Hey, You Down There! (short story)
- Harold Rolseth
- Pet Haiku (poetry)
- Nancee Belshaw
- A Conversation with My Dogs (drama)
- Merrill Markoe
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Light Verse (poems)
- various contributors
- Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground (short story)
- Richard Peck
- How to Eat Like a Child (how-to parody)
- Delia Ephron
- A Houseful of Love and Laughter (autobiography)
- Jay Leno
