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Laughter the Best Medicine

More than 600 Jokes, Gags & Laugh Lines For All Occasions

Edited by Reader's Digest
Published by Trusted Media Brands
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
LIST PRICE $9.95

About The Book

Laughter the Best Medicine is a collection of Reader's Digest magazine's funniest jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, anecdotes, and laugh-out-loud captions. A little chuckle every day will keep the doctor away.

This hilarious collection offers up some of the funniest moments that get us through our day, in the form of jokes, gags and cartoons that will have readers laughing out loud.

Editors have mined the Reader’s Digest archives to bring readers Laughter the Best Medicine, All-Time Faves, a collection of the most hilarious jokes and anecdotes we’ve come across over the years. As you turn the pages of our newest collection, you’ll realize once again that laughter is always the best medicine.

--A woman accompanied her husband when he went for his annual checkup. While the patient was getting dressed, the doctor came in and said to the wife, "I don't like the way he looks." "Neither do I," she said, "but he's handy around the house."--Merritt K. Freeman in Y.B. News

--Anthropologists have discovered a 50-million-year-old human skull with three perfectly preserved teeth intact. They're not sure, but they think it may be the remains of the very first hockey player.--Jay Leno

--"What's your handicap these days?" one golfer asked another. "I'm a scratch golfer...I write down all my good scores and scratch out all my bad ones."--Charles Shulz, United Features Syndicate

Product Details

  • Publisher: Trusted Media Brands (October 27, 1997)
  • Length: 216 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780895779779

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