Best Jokes of 1927

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. A mock-serious foreword claims these "fresh" jokes can improve manners, sharpen character, and even promote moral propriety, while winking that a few may be more risqué than they first appear. What follows is a rapid-fire 1927 parade of one-liners, dialogue jokes, and comic misunderstandings that turn everyday life into a playground of puns and reversals. Drawn from student papers, magazines, and humor columns, the collection targets marriage, courtship, education, medicine, work, drinking, crime, sports, automobiles, fashion, and modern manners. Professors, doctors, judges, police, parents, shopkeepers, and spouses all become straight men for deadpan logic, double meanings, and literal-minded replies. The jokes move briskly from domestic scenes to classroom gags, office life, college culture, and social pretension, often slipping in sly ethnic humor and old-fashioned slang. Light, mischievous, and sharply satirical, the book offers a lively snapshot of early twentieth-century wit, where ordinary conversation is endlessly derailed by wordplay and absurdity.