num_pages: 496
description: Nutritiousness aside, May Contain Nuts provides 100% of the daily recommended amount of that essential life-enhancer, laughter. With more than 70 contributors and 150 shots from the loose canon of American humor, it's a stellar edition with plenty of real stars from stage and screen(writing): • Seinfeld 's Peter Mehlman • Hairspray 's Mark O'Donnell • Ed 's Michael Ian Black • and the world's most famous drive-in movie critic, Joe Bob Briggs Plus, there's Roy Blount Jr. on how to travel "Southern" outside the South; summer recipes from our man in the kitchen, Henry Alford; Firesign Theatre's Phil Austin's yuletide "Tale of the Old Detective"; P. J. O'Rourke's not-so-intimate "Diary of a Country Gentleman"; Daniel Radosh's "PowerPoint Anthology of Literature"; and Tom Gliatto's helpful overview of today's thriving cabaret scene. With umpteen illustrations, many perplexing charts, and our first centerfold ever, this volume is party-sized for your reading pleasure. New in This Issue
language: English
title: May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American Humor
titlecomplete: May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American Humor
genres: Humor
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Harper Paperbacks