Voices In Time Comedy 1791 | Steventon Briefly Noted Fifteen-year-old Jane Austen is unimpressed with the kings and queens of England. More
Voices In Time Comedy 1225 | France Goodbye to All That A wife takes a priest as her lover and hides him in an unfortunate place.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1688 | France Character Study A man of sense should learn to jest gracefully and to not be obscene.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1838 | Springfield, IL Abraham Lincoln Loses the Girl Before he was president, Abraham Lincoln went on a terrible blind date. More
Voices In Time Comedy 1963 | Los Angeles Lenny Bruce Loses the Crowd “Do you mind being called a sick comic?”More
Voices In Time Comedy 1865 | London A German Comedy Is Like a German Sentence George Eliot pays homage the wittiest nation on the continent. More
Voices In Time Comedy 1860 | London Roots of Laughter Laughter is an uncontrolled discharge of energy that commands the entire body.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1875 | London Self-Incrimination “Habitual laughers are silly, giddy, frivolous, superficial persons.”More
Voices In Time Comedy c. 1940 | Ireland Flann O’Brien Splits the Atom Atomic theory is beyond the reach of the third policeman. More
Voices In Time Comedy c. 330 BC | Athens Categorical Imperatives Aristotle explains that the aim of comedy is to show men as more terrible than they really are.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1913 | Los Angeles Charlie Chaplin Invents Himself The tramp picks up his bowler hat and cane for the first time. More
Voices In Time Comedy 1947 | Washington, D.C. New Hires President Harry Truman appoints a Secretary of Semantics.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1456 | Paris Last Testament François Villon writes his will and burns a few bridges.More
Voices In Time Comedy 300 | Greece Very Old Jokes Two numbskulls trade insults in Ancient Greece.More