Best of the Best American Humor The Funniest Cartoons, Columns, and Essays from the Funny Times Newspaper

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For the past 15 years, The Funny Times has been among America's funniest publications. Now, for the first time, the funniest of the funny material from The Funny Times is being published as a book (and did we mention it's a funny one?).Every month, the editors of The Funny Times scour America's newspapers, magazines, and random refrigerators to collect the very best cartoons, columns, and essays and offer them in one place. Now for the first time they have whittled down their best stuff into a super best of The Funny Times.You want funny? This book's got funny: Dave Barry, Matt Groening, Garrison Keillor, Lynda Barry, Hunter S. Thompson, Spalding Gray, P.J. O'Rourke, and plenty more of the best humorists and cartoonists at work today. And stuff like Caveguy Magazine (Fire: What the Hell Is It?) and You Know You Don't Have a Life When . . . (everything in your living room is pointing toward the TV).Last we checked, Best Bathroom Book was not a category at the National Book Awards, so we don't have our hopes up on that score . . . but if there were such a category ...