Laughing Matter: A Celebration of American Humor #[nn]

Selected and edited by Gene Shalit, Laughing Matters: A Celebration of American Humor arrives from Doubleday in 1987 as a joyful anthology of American comedy. The cover art sets the perfect tone — a lively, ink-drawn crowd of broadly caricatured comic personalities tumbles together behind a stage curtain, all exaggerated expressions, cigars, glasses, and grins. It's a fitting visual invitation to a collection that clearly relishes the full, raucous spectrum of what makes Americans laugh.