Review of
What’s
So Funny About Getting Old?, by Ed Fischer and Jane Thomas
Noland ISBN 0881662232
Five out of five stars
The humor in
this book is of course directed at the elderly. Yet, in general they won’t mind
for it is pretty good and hits a mark that nearly all can relate to. Aging is a
gradual process that grinds away at you and must be adjusted to. Yet, it helps
to see the humor in some of the changes of perspectives and daily difficulties
that crop up. This book will help in that adjustment.
The general
structure is a set of jokes in textual form on the left with a cartoon image on
the right. Some of the jokes are by professional comedians. One of the best is
by Henny Youngman, “At my age when a girl flirts with me in the movies, she is
after my popcorn.” If you are getting up in years and need a few laughs to help
you cope, this book will provide them.
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