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The ability to laugh at annoyances, crises, and even outright disasters can literally save your life. The author presents a series of proven techniques for overcoming the negative effects of loss, setbacks, upsets, disappointments, trials, and tribulations.

The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much more, it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new collection, one as satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing, as the first, Fierce Pajamas. From the 1920s onward–but with a special focus on the latest generation–here are the humorists who set the pace and stirred the pot, pulled the leg and pinched the behind of America.

S. J. Perelman unearths the furious letters of a foreign correspondent in India to the laundry he insists on using in Paris (“Who charges six francs to wash a cummerbund?!”). Woody Allen recalls the “Whore of Mensa,” who excites her customers by reading Proust (or, if you want, two girls will explain Noam Chomsky). Steve Martin’s pill bottle warns us of side effects ranging from hair that smells of burning tires to teeth receiving radio broadcasts. Andy Borowitz provides his version of theater-lobby notices (“In Act III, there is full frontal nudity, but not involving the actor you would like to see naked”). David Owen’s rules for dating his ex-wife start out magnanimous and swiftly disintegrate into sarcasm, self-loathing, and rage, and Noah Baumbach unfolds a history of his last relationship in the form of Zagat reviews.

Meanwhile, off in a remote “willage” in Normandy, David Sedaris is drowning a mouse (“This was for the best, whether the mouse realized it or not”).

Plus asides, fancies, rebukes, and musings from Patty Marx, Calvin Trillin, Bruce McCall, Garrison Keillor, Veronica Geng, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others.

If laughter is the best medicine, Disquiet, Please is truly a wonder drug.


From the Hardcover edition.

640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man.

The "master of mirth" is back by popular demand. Loretta LaRoche is ready to help viewers in their continuing quest to get a handle on their stress. Behind her irreverent unconventional wacky and just plain funny style Loretta has successfully found a way to make cognitive therapy (rethinking the way you think) accessible and in so doing help viewers see "the folly of their ways" and put our lives back in perspective. Loretta gets started by helping us face the fact that we are out of control. We are a world dominated by faxing phoning and whining. Everything has become a chore including our kids for whom even playtime is an over-achievers overly scheduled stressful activity. She makes a convincing case for the health benefits of life with joy and laughter. Loretta also gets us thinking about life "The Way We Were." You've probably read a little about it -- the Simplicity Movement the desire to get back to a simpler way of living. For those stuck on the path to getting there Loretta will help us get unstuck by gently guiding us on our way. Together we will rediscover: extended family and friends non-microwave food the joy of singing clothing that makes sense and our homes as sanctuaries not satellite work stations. Topping off Humor Your Stress shows eight steps to en-lightenment -- which translated means "lightening our ways." This will include: finding the humor in everyday situations; learning how to stop "to-doing" and start "tah-dahing" learning how to walk lightly (including twirling and standing on one leg); and finding "the bless in all the mess."System Requirements:Running Time: 60 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/WGBH BOSTON UPC: 783421260993 Manufacturer No: WG26099

Ever fall for the lure of expensive, exotic moisturizers promising impossible anti-aging miracles? Ever receive one of those happy, sappy New Year's letters from someone you barely remember from fourth grade? Can't decide whether to stay friends with a size two woman who won't eat a carrot because of its high-carb content?

If so, you're in good company. Award-winning humorist and Bikram yoga dropout Judy Gruen copes with all this and more in The Women's Daily Irony Supplement. Her riffs on female obsessions, motherhood, men, and why a woman's home is her hassle are candid, fresh, and surprisingly intimate. Reading these comic gems is guaranteed to improve the health of every woman, because laughter releases endorphins!

You'll find hilarious takes on life in such terrific chapters as:

When Bad Contractors Happen to Good People (A Tragedy in Three Parts)
A Plant Murderer Turns Over a New Leaf
Clutched by Purse Fever
A Crime of Passion, Featuring Chocolate Truffles
The Motherboard Has Blown

Plus, touching family moments like "My Two Papas" and "Old Spice Remembered."

In his thirty years with the National Park Service, Jim Burnett has seen it all: boat ramp mishaps that have sent cars into the water; skunks in the outhouse and bears at the dumpster; visitors looking for the bridge over the Grand Canyon.