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Garrick's complete jester; or, a library of fun and laughter. Being a general repository of humour, wit, and entertainment. Consisting of Remarkable Tales, Extraordinary Adventures, Entertaining Histories, Pathetic Eastern Stories, Ingenious Bon Mots, Facetious Jests, Poignant Repartees, Choice Conundrums, &c. And every other Species of Humour, Wit, Instruction, and Entertainment. Calculated to Exhilarate the Spirits, to amend the Heart, and to improve the Understanding.
Date: [1779?]- Books
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The story teller's magazine, or, A library of laughter. Being a general repository of humour, wit, and entertainment. Consisting of Remarkable tales, Extraordinary adventures, Entertaining histories, Pathetic eastern stories, Ingenious bon mots, Facetious jests, Poignant repartees, Celebrated songs. And every other species of humour, wit, instruction, and entertainment. Calculated to exhilarate the spirits, to amend the heart, and to improve the understanding. By a Society of Jolly Fellows, who delight in Mirth, but detest all manner of obscenity. Vol. I.
Society of Jolly Fellows.Date: [1778?]- Books
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The Merry Andrew: Being the smartest collection every yet published, of elegant repartees, brilliant jests, ridiculous bulls, comical tales, facetious epigrams, humorous epitaphs, droll jokes, profound riddles, and second hand conundrums. This book is the quintessence of wit, the source of fun, the original of laughter, and the perfection of true humour. By Ferdinando Funny, Esq; M.M. and professor of Drollery in the University of Humbug.
Funny, Ferdinando.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Fisher's cheerful companion to promote laughter; being a humorous collection of interesting stories for a winter's evening fireside; or amusement for summer, in a shady retreat. Containing the Stories of The Three Dexterous Thieves, The Wishes, The Widgeon, The Lucky Disaster, The Hunch-Back'd Minstrels, The Conjurer, The Fortunate Peasant, The Two Rogues, The Humorous Miller, The Adventures of Searamouch The Unfortunate Spaniard, The Ghost, and Mutual Confidence on the Wedding Night.
Fisher, S. (Simon).Date: [1800]- Books
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Mirth's madness, or, the vanity of mens laughter, and of their merry amusements in their idle hours. Consider'd in a sermon upon Ecclesiastes II. 1,2. (intended to have been preached in St. James's church in S. Edmunds-Bury, October the 8th, 1701. And now in Compensation of the undesign'd Disappointment that Day, for the use of those Persons of Quality and others, who resort to the Wednesday Lecture there.) By Edward Grove A.M. Rector of Chevington near Bury, in the County of Suffolk.
Grove, Edward, 1667 or 1668-1727.Date: 1702- Books
Ha! : the science of when we laugh and why / Scott Weems.
Weems, ScottDate: [2014]- Books
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The jovial jester; or, Tim. Grin's delight. The most capital collection of wit and laughter; containing a selection of good saying witty jests bon mots repartees joke puns bulls quibbles tales stories adventures narrations anecdotes waggeries double entendres hob nobs whims frolicks humbugs witticisms fables sm... observations ingenoius flights, &c. which will expel care, drown grief, and banish the spleen: the whole containing more wit in one page than are in a volume; being compiled by the choice spirits at the Shakespear Bedford Coffee House Fox's Piazza Coffee-House The Rose Jupp's Covent-Garden Drury-Lane Theatre and other merry and diverting places of entertainment.
Date: [1786?]- Books
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The frisky jester; or, The cream of the jest, and the marrow of the tale. Consisting of a banquet of wit for the laughter-loving crew. Containing a dish of fun for every palate, from the peer to the peasant, or from the superb drawing-room to the humble cot. Finely relished and highly seasoned. Consisting of laughable stories, diverting tales, poignant jests, keen repartees, interesting bon mots, bulls a la Dublin, in the true Hibernian taste, luscious double entendres, pointed epigrams, paradoxical enigmas, rebuses, conundrums, &c. &c. &c. Together with a curious collection of celebrated songs, and a great variety of new toasts and sentiments. By Roger Rubyface, Esq. common council-man of Port-Soaking ward.
Rubyface, Roger.Date: [between 1782 and 1785?]- Books
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The jovial jester; or Tim. Grin's delight, being a collection of wit and laughter; Containing A Selection Of Hob Nobs Whims Faolics Humbugs Puns Repartees Waggaries Bon Mots Quibbles Stories Whitticisms Fables Adventures Bulls Talfs Anecdotes Jests Gibes Satyrs &c. &c. And Other Ingenious Flights. Which will expel Care, drown Grief, and banish the Spleen; and containing more Real Wit in one Page than can be found in a Volume in other Publications. Compiled by the choice spirits at the Piazza coffee house, Bedford coffee-house Jupp's, Rose, Shakespeare, Fox's, Covent-Garden, Drury-Lane Theatre, and other merry and diverting places of entertainment.
Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
Traité du ris : contenant son essance, ses causes, et mervelheus effais, curieusemant recerchés, raisonnés & observés / par M. Laur. Ioubert.
Joubert, Laurent, 1529-1583.Date: 1579- Pictures
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A laughing jester holding a fool's bauble with a grotesque face. Line engraving by D. Custos after H. Goltzius.
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.Reference: 3233i- Books
Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr.
Hurley, Matthew M., 1977-Date: [2011], ©2011- Pictures
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A laughing face. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Date: 1732Reference: 32637i- Books
Rabelais's laughers and Joubert's Traité du ris / Gregory de Rocher.
Rocher, Gregory de.Date: [1979], ©1979- Books
Clowns and jokers can heal us : comedy and medicine / Albert Howard Carter III.
Carter, Albert Howard, 1943-Date: 2011- Pictures
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A doctor and his patient laugh during a consultation; behind, a nun stands by the door. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17148i- Books
Smiles are everywhere : integrating clown-play into healthcare practice / Bernie Warren and Peter Spitzer.
Warren, Bernie, 1953-Date: 2014- Pictures
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Four faces (clockwise from top left): laughing, weeping, showing sadness, and compassion. Etching by A.-J. Defehrt after C. Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Reference: 33648i- Books
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Pilul? splenetic?: or, a laugh from a true-blue Presbyterian. Read on, and you'll see the jest.
True-blue Presbyterian.Date: 1736- Audio
The life scientific : 6/8 [Sophie Scott].
Date: 2013- Books
La cause morale du ris de l'excellant & tres-nommé Democrite / expliquee & temognee par le divin Hippocras, an ses Epitres. Traduite de Grec an Fransais, par M. I. Guichard.
Hippocrates.Date: 1579- Pictures
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A man breathing in nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and a man exhibiting its exhilarating effects. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
Date: [1840?]Reference: 12028i- Books
Freud et le rire / [sous la direction de] A. Willy Szafran et Adolphe Nysenholc.
Date: 1994- Books
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Mirth in ridicule: or, a satyr against immoderate laughing. Containing the follies too often found in a sea-officer, land-officer, courtier, lawyer, priest, Merchant, Scholar, Poet, Miser, The Ladies, A Maid, Strumpet, Beau, Gamester, Quack, Plotter, and a libertine.
Date: [1708]- Pictures
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A man dancing and laughing as a result of the effects of nitrous oxide gas. Engraving.
Reference: 23223i