More of the Best of Milton Berle's Private Joke File: 10,000 Of the World's Funniest Gags, Anecdotes, and One -Liners [Hardcover]

Milton Berle (Author), Milt Rosen (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1996

Gathers 10,000 of the world's funniest gags, anecdotes, and one liners, in a diverse, alphabetically arranged collection that tramples everything from business and honeymoons to lawyers and salespeople.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

As the title suggests, this is a sequel to Mr. Television's earlier Milton Berle's Private Joke File (Crown, 1989) and stands with his other literary productions: Out of My Trunk (1945); Earthquake ( LJ 5/15/59); and more. Here one will find, alphabetically arranged from aardvark to zoo, thousands of Uncle Miltie's one-liners, anecdotes, and gags. Some are original, some are outright plunderings, and some are rephrasings. For those who need it, there is a recipe for concocting one's own roast. With recent television commercials by Berle offering videos of his golden years on television and now this cornucopia of jokes, one wonders if he is afraid we have forgotten how to laugh. Recommended for public libraries with humor collections; this might additionally be useful in college collections for speech students looking for opening or closing attention-getters for their orations.
- Scott Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., Miss.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 553 pages
• Publisher: Book Sales (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785807195
• ISBN-13: 978-0785807193
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,272,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uncle Miltie does it again!, August 29, 2001

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Joel L. Gandelman (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More of the Best of Milton Berle's Private Joke File: 10,000 Of the World's Funniest Gags, Anecdotes, and One -Liners (Hardcover)

Uncle Miltie does it again! This is a fine companion to his first big, fat hilarious volume. The good news is that the topics are not all the same as in the first volume (you do need both to have a complete collection) but the big laughs are as big as ever. You truly get a sense when you read Berle's jokes from this and his first book that he wanted to include some of his best and favorite stuff and get it out there to the public (and maybe other comedians, as a kind of legacy). I only wish I had the $ to buy his file's CD-rom version but until I do this and the first book are on my office reference shelf for use when I need a laugh, when I want to appear brilliant when visiting friends, or to plug a gap in a routine that I'm writing or a special show that I'm doing (I'm a fulltime ventriloquist). You can see how many of his jokes were "switched" from others over the years and that is a common practice. You can take a joke on X subject and reword it and customize it for a specific person or group. The main thing is: Berle didn't issue a thick, joke-filled book containing filler. Every joke, every page MATTERS. He gifted to all who pay the price some of his funniest stuff: one-liners, longer jokes, insults, riddles. Super high quality --and worth a LOT more than the book's price.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very, very funny, May 3, 2000

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Jeff Crystal - See all my reviews

This review is from: More of the Best of Milton Berle's Private Joke File: 10,000 Of the World's Funniest Gags, Anecdotes, and One -Liners (Hardcover)

THIS BOOK GAVE ME SOME GREAT JOKES.