Try and Stop Me

by Bennett Cerf
Category: "Humor"
Pages:371
Year of Publication:1944
Date Added:02/20/2021
Date Read:12/20/2023
Notes:Armed Services Edition

Anecdotes about famous people and about life in general, along with corny jokes on a variety of subjects. They all were collected by the author as the kind of thing story-tellers tell at parties to be amusing.
My Rating: 6

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Review - Try and Stop Me

Very strange book. Dad jokes, ghost stories, tales about celebrities all mixed together. I know humor has changed in the past 80 years. I also know that jokes that have long become stale and cliche had to have been original at some point. But I can't help thinking that most of these would only have been entertaining to people who were drunk
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