Usually dirty-joke books disappoint me. Why is it that I can't come up with a blue joke when called on at the Lion's Club, but when I pay for a joke book it seems that ninety percent of the contents are familiar to me from 40 years of Playboy's Party Jokes, Sex to Sexty, college humor, workplace funnies and the Internet?
But the GINORMOUS BOOK OF DIRTY JOKES is different. These jokes are truly funny and the vast majority were new to me. I read the book through in two sittings and if not for holiday obligations, would have done it in one. If there's any objection I have to this book -- not a major one -- it's that the jokes are not separated out by topic into separate chapters. The biggest number probably have to do with the battle of the sexes, especially the classic cuckoldry and two-timing in general, also of course impotence, frigidity and modern Viagran variations on that theme. But these are interspersed with a great many other goodies such as Little Johnny jokes, gay, lesbian, workplace, Complaints by a Penis, and some nice wordplay on sexual themes. ("I wanna watch" is one of the few I had already heard.)
If you'd like a treasury of no-holds-barred risque (and occasionally downright nasty) American humor, I don't think you'll go wrong with THE GINORMOUS BOOK OF DIRTY JOKES. Now when you're called upon to crack wise in a raunchy vein, you'll be well equipped. And speaking about "well-equipped," did you hear about the guy who . . . well, you'd better read this book for the lowdown!
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