The joker
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Andrew Hudgins
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781476712710; 9781476712734
Subjects: Biography; American wit and humor; American Poets
Description: "Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself--what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger ... This book is both a memoir and a meditation on jokes and how they educated, delighted, and occasionally horrified him as he grew"--