Publisher's Synopsis
Ian Frazier's anthology is a literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen-and funnywomen-of the page. Selected by the beloved humourist and featuring 40 of the greatest pieces of comic writing in our time, Humor Me includes such masters as Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as works by newer comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Simon Rich, George Saunders, and David Sedaris. Almost all of the pieces appeared in the past 30 years in such popular magazines as The New Yorker, McSweeney's, the Atlantic, National Lampoon, and Outside, but Humor Me also includes a handful of classic comic masterpieces from Mark Twain, Elizabeth Bishop, Grace Paley, and Donald Barthelme.
