The Best Jokes Minnie Pearl Ever Told

The Best Jokes Minnie Pearl Ever Told
Author: Kevin Kenworthy
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1999-02-10
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1418530794

From the stage of the Grand Ole Opry to concert halls around the world, and on television's Hee Haw and Prime Time Country, Cousin Minnie Pearl entertained fans and friends with her stories about Grinder's Switch and her jokes. Now you can recall the best of them, such as . . . This week we decided we'd better take Brother up to Nashville and try to get him a job. So I took him to one of the places and the man said he'd give Brother a job. He said, "I can start you at thity dollars a week and in five years you'll get two hundred!" Brother said, "That's fine. I'll be back in five years!" Mr. Smith, a seventy-five-year-old multimillionaire, just married a young, beautiful eighteen-year-old girl. A friend asked, "How did you get an eighteen-year-old to marry you when you're seventy-five?" The man said, "I told her I was ninety-five!" Also included are memories of Minnie by . . . Porter Wagoner Ralph Emery Bill Anderson Johnny Russell Little Jimmy Dickens Jimmy C. Newman

Minnie Pearl

Minnie Pearl
Author: Joan Dew
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1982
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780671435363

Christmas at Grinders Switch

Christmas at Grinders Switch
Author: Minnie Pearl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1985
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780687077762

This book is like a loving and bountiful letter from an old friend.

Lowering the Bar

Lowering the Bar
Author: Marc Galanter
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2006-08-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780299213541

What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts

A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts
Author: Liz Sonneborn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: United States
ISBN: 1438107900

Presents biographical profiles of 150 American women of achievement in the field of performing arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Pretty Good Joke Book

Pretty Good Joke Book
Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Humor
ISBN:

Over 2,200 Jokes from America’s favorite live radio show A treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and asks, “Where is the bar tender?” Drum roll. The Sixth Edition of the perennially popular Pretty Good Joke Book is everything the first five were and more. More puns, one-liners, light bulb jokes, knock-knock jokes, and third-grader jokes (have you heard the one about Elvis Parsley?). More religion jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, blonde jokes, and jokes in questionable taste (Why did the urologist lose his license? He got in trouble with his peers). More jokes about chickens, relationships, and senior moments (the nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you can enjoy the same jokes again and again). It all started back in 1996, when A Prairie Home Companion fans laughed themselves silly during the first Joke Show. The broadcast was such a hit that it became an almost-annual gagfest. Then fans wanted to read the jokes, share them, and pass them around, and the first Pretty Good Joke Book was born. With over 200 new and updated jokes, the latest edition promises countless giggles, chortles, and guffaws anyone—fans of the radio show or not—will enjoy.

Country Music Humorists and Comedians

Country Music Humorists and Comedians
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2008-10-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252033698

This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer, often including a sample of the musician's humor, a recording history, and amusing anecdotal tidbits. In an entertaining style, Jones covers performers throughout the twentieth century, from such early stars of vaudeville and radio barn dances as the Skillet Lickers and the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, to regulars on Hee Haw and the Grand Old Opry, continuing to current comedians such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Ray Stevens, and Jeff Foxworthy.

Greater Tuna

Greater Tuna
Author: Jaston Williams
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573619021

Two performers portray numerous characters in this stage comedy of life in imaginary small-town Tuna, Texas ... "where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies!"

Let Me Tell You Something

Let Me Tell You Something
Author: Ronda Rich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692156452

The rural South is a place that still recalls a simpler time, a land where kudzu grows unrestrained, the dirt is impossibly stubborn, and honeysuckle vines are heavy with blossoms, beauty, and fragrance.If you listen closely to the stories Ronda Rich tells, you'll hear the soothing sound of a screen door a-bangin', or a cow lowing, or the hard work of a farmer interrupted as he cusses out an old tractor that's broken down once again under the broiling, relentless sun. But when his day is finished, he'll scrub the red soil from his hands and then, most likely, clasp those hands together in prayer over supper as he thanks the Lord for the bounty of the land that nearly whupped him that day. Southerners are an optimistic people, a trait they learned from the long line of folks who have gone before them. And always, in good times and bad, they celebrate their inheritance of sterling, bold storytelling.In this - the first collection of stories gathered from her weekly newspaper column - Ronda pays homage to those she proudly calls "my people." This is a heapin' helpin' of the South generously seasoned with some of its most entertaining characters.