Humour Me

Humor Me is a literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen—and funnywomen—of the page. Selected by the renowned humorist Ian Frazier and featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time, the book includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by newer comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Simon Rich, George Saunders, and David Sedaris.
The pieces were published in the past thirty years in such popular magazines as The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and Outside. But the book also includes a handful of older comic masterpieces that nobody in need of a laugh should ever be without, among them classics by Bret Harte, Elizabeth Bishop, Donald Barthelme, and Mark Twain.
Contributors include:
Henry Alford • Roger Angell • Donald Barthelme • Elizabeth Bishop • Roy Blount, Jr. • Andy Borowitz • Lynn Caraganis • Rich Cohen • Prudence Crowther • Larry Doyle • Glenn Eichler • Bill Franzen • Ian Frazier • Bruce Jay Friedman • Polly Frost • Frank Gannon • Veronica Geng • Scott Gutterman • Jack Handey • Bret Harte • Larry Heinemann • Garrison Keillor • Dan Kennedy • Daniil Kharms • Jamaica Kincaid • David Mamet • Steve Martin • Patricia Marx • Bobbie Ann Mason • Ian Maxtone-Graham • Bruce McCall • Patrick F. McManus • George Meyer • Howard Moss • Mark O’Donnell • Michael O’Donoghue • David Owen • Grace Paley • Charles Portis • Padgett Powell • Simon Rich • George Saunders • Cathleen Schine • David Sedaris • Susan Shapiro • Paul Simms • Mark Singer • Jake Swearingen • Calvin Tomkins • Calvin Trillin • George W. S. Trow • Mark Twain • John Updike • Mikhail Zoshchenko