WE MUST TAKE HUMOUR SERIOUSLY!
A Review of “We Must Take Humour Seriously”
By Ellen Tanner Marsh
Best selling author, New York Times
We've all heard the classic Henny Youngman one-liner: "Take my wife...please!" Imagine holding a book that contains more than 1400 similarly clever and occasionally self-effacing one-liners. In Beau's We Must Take Humour Seriously!, we get all of those zingers...and more.
In the section New Words for Our New Age, for instance, comic Beau throws out one clever contender for lexicography after another. Hipatitis, he writes, is defined as "terminal coolness," osteopornosis as "a degenerate disease." And "the bozone layer" is something that, "unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future."
There are infamous last words ("This doesn't taste right"), crazy definitions (Paranoid: You probably think I don't know the answer, right?), military humor ("If you see a bomb technician running, follow him,") children's definitions of love ("When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you,") and sage comments about aging ("It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser."). There are short stories (always funny) and bizarre book titles (my pride won't allow me to repeat any of them here. Fine, okay, but only one: Split Personalities by Jacqueline Hyde. Didn't I warn you?).
The bottom line? This book will make everyone laugh. In fact, anyone who reads this august work and does not laugh is either comatose or dead. (Incidentally, there are jokes about those conditions too.) Beau does everyone a favor by reminding us that, in the age of weapons of mass destruction, corporate meltdown, rising crime and worldwide poverty and disease, laughter my well be the most effective medicine for our times. Even if a few teaspoons of We Must Take Humour Seriously! won't cure these terrible ills, at least we can laugh while the "real" antidote is being developed.
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