No one steps up to life’s banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, “Grief, please!” But as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. Every buffet line has a dessert section, however, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems as though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It’s good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living with them. With that, the irrepressible Lorna Landvik launches her latest irresistible character onto the world stage—or at least onto the dimly lit small stage where stand-up comedy gets its start. Herself a comic performer, Landvik taps her own adventurous past and Minnesota roots to conjure Candy’s life in this strange new Technicolor home. Her fellow tenants at Peyton Hall include a female bodybuilder, a ruined nightclub impresario, and a well-connected Romanian fortune-teller. There are game show appearances and temp jobs at a record company and an establishment suspiciously like the Playboy Mansion, and of course the alluring but not always welcoming stage of stand-up comedy. As she hones her act, Candy is tested by humiliation, hecklers, and the inherent sexism that insists “chicks aren’t funny.” Written with the light touch and quiet wisdom that have made her works so popular, this is classic Lorna Landvik—sometimes so funny, you’ll cry; sometimes so sad, you might as well laugh; and always impossible to put down.

More than 600 jokes, gags and laugh lines, Drawn from one of the most popular features of Reader's Digest magazine, this collection of jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life is just what the doctor ordered.

Laughter can turn sadness into silliness, heartache into happiness, and transform a gloomy day. This little volume honors the value of a good laugh, with inspirations from such masters of mirth as Walt Disney and Jay Leno.

When life slams you to the floor, you need a pick-me-up. Grogan's stories will get you off the floor, get you laughing, and help you put things into perspective! Includes over 100 humorous stories that are certifiably funny.

My book full of jokes to make you laugh!

You know you want to, don't hold it in, "go ahead and laugh." Life is too short to hold in the healing power of laughter. Bill Park has compiled funny stories and jokes from friends and family and many other sources to create this book filled with clean jokes, silly stories and one-liners for anyone who likes to share a good laugh. For the speaker who wants to add a fun zinger in his talk, or the person who just needs a good laugh, this book has just what you need, and with the index, will allow you easy access to the perfect joke or one liner.

Chicken Soup for the Soul’s first-ever humor collection, and the timing is perfect. This is storytelling at its funniest. If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is your prescription. Turn off the news and spend a few days not following current events. Instead, return to the basics—humanity’s ability to laugh at itself. Maybe you should even do a news cleanse for a few days! Hide under the covers and read these stories instead. Or read a chapter a day, or a story a day for 101 days. These pages contain the antidote to whatever is troubling you. They will definitely put you in a good mood. No one is safe from our writers— from spouses to parents to children to colleagues and friends. And of course the funniest of all are the stories they tell about their own mishaps and those “most embarrassing moments.” There’s no holding anything back in these pages, so prepare for lots of good, clean (and not so clean) fun.

A collection of over 200 jokes, riddles, funny stories and funny quotes. This book is fun for everyone and it will help to liven-up every occasion. I was born on the island of Trinidad, and there was no better place to start my collection because Trinidadians love "a good laugh." Some jokes may not be suitable for young children, but it will be fun to share some riddles and funny stories with them. The best way to ease emotional tensions caused by stress and life's anxieties is to laugh, so if you want to stay young, keep laughing.