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Ever wondered who makes a very funny person laugh Wonder no more. Brought together in this Library of America collection are Americas fifty funniest writersaccording to acclaimed writer and comedian Andy Borowitz. Reaching back to Mark Twain and forward to contemporary masters such as David Sedaris, Nora Ephron, Roy Blount Jr., Ian Frazier, Bernie Mac, Wanda Sykes, and George Saunders, The 50 Funniest American Writers is an exclusive Whos Who of the very best American comic writing. Here are Thurber and Perelman, Lenny Bruce and Bruce Jay Friedman, Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry, and Veronica Geng, plus hilarious lesser-known pieces from The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and The Onion. Who does one of the funniest people in America CBS Sunday Morning read when he needs a laugh,.



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Andy Borowitz

Andy Borowitz is a New York Times bestselling author and comedian who created the satirical column The Borowitz Report, which was acquired by The New Yorker in 2012 and has millions of readers around the world. He is the first-ever winner of the National Press Club's humor award, a two-time finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and a three-time host of the National Book Awards. He has been called a "Swiftian satirist" (The Wall Street Journal) , "America's satire king" (The Daily Beast) , "the funniest human on Twitter" (The New York Times) and "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS News Sunday Morning) . His Kindle Single, "An Unexpected Twist," was a number one bestseller and Amazon's Best Kindle Single of 2012.



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