Knott, Blanche (Ashton Applewhite);
Truly Tasteless Jokes
Ballantine Books, 1982, 116 pages
ISBN 034530537X, 9780345305374
topics: | humour
This book was the biggest-selling mass-market book of 1983 - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DB1739F93AA25752C1A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. It was written by Ashton Applewhite, a fresh college graduate working with St. Martin's Press http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Knott. Categories of tasteless jokes include DEAD BABY: What does it take to make a dead baby float? One scoop of ice cream and one scoop of dead baby. What's red and squirms in the corner? A baby playing with a razor blade. Why do you put a baby in the blender feet first? So you can watch its expression. What's red and goes round and round? A baby in a garbage disposal. or HELEN KELLER: How did Helen Keller burn her fingers? Reading the waffle iron. Why does HK masturbate with one hand? So she can moan with the other. and a large section on POLISH (what does a polish girl do after she sucks cock? Spits out the feathers) and BLACK: What do you call a black boy with a bicycle? Thief! What's the new Webster's definition of the word "confusion"? Father's day in Harlem.