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3.0 out of 5 stars
Deconstructed yuks,
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This review is from: Extravaganza: A Joke Book (Lish, Gordon) (Paperback)
Smith and Dale were an actual comedic act from vaudeville. In this book, they tell jokes in Jewish dialect--jokes about medicine (the men as patient and doctor, respectively); jokes about marriage; jokes about spending entire days sitting on park benches; jokes about what goes ding. However, the humor of these long, moldy, clueless old routines drains away to reveal the boredom, poverty, anti-Semitism, violence, and death shaping these men's lives. Lish offers not black humor, in other words, but blackened humor, and does so with metafictional brio. And he ends Extravaganza just before its irony and its self-conscious devices (e.g., Smith and Dale comment upon the book in which they appear) start wearing thin, or maybe TOO thin.
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