Voices In Time 1882 | San Francisco The Reply Churlish Ambrose Bierce is not amused with Oscar Wilde.More
Voices In Time 1452 | Florence Have You Heard the One About the Doltish Venetian? Situational comedy from the Pope’s secretary.More
Voices In Time 1838 | Springfield, IL Abraham Lincoln Loses the Girl Before he was president, Abraham Lincoln went on a terrible blind date. More
Voices In Time 1456 | Paris Last Testament François Villon writes his will and burns a few bridges.More
Voices In Time 1947 | Washington, D.C. New Hires President Harry Truman appoints a Secretary of Semantics.More
Voices In Time 1748 | Bath Low and Unbecoming Philip Dormer Stanhope recommends to his son to never laugh, ever.More
Voices In Time 1731 | Dublin Parthian Shot Jonathan Swift predicts what his friends and neighbors will say about him after he is dead.More
Voices In Time 1865 | London A German Comedy Is Like a German Sentence George Eliot pays homage the wittiest nation on the continent. More
Voices In Time c. 1555 | Paris Merry Pranksters A prank-war between a nobleman and the court fool escalates out of control. More
Voices In Time c. 1940 | Ireland Flann O’Brien Splits the Atom Atomic theory is beyond the reach of the third policeman. More
Voices In Time 1830 | Eafield Non-Apology A wild and drunken night leaves Charles Lamb worse for wear but unapologetic about his actions.More
Voices In Time 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 1688 | France Character Study A man of sense should learn to jest gracefully and to not be obscene.More
Voices In Time 1895 | London Oscar Wilde Arranges an Interview Lady Bracknell is not impressed with her future son-in-law.More
Voices In Time 1875 | London Self-Incrimination “Habitual laughers are silly, giddy, frivolous, superficial persons.”More
Voices In Time 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 1921 | Baltimore H.L. Mencken on Balder and Dash A newspaperman takes down the enemy: “He writes the worst English I have ever encountered.”More
Voices In Time 1860 | London Roots of Laughter Laughter is an uncontrolled discharge of energy that commands the entire body.More
Voices In Time 1791 | Steventon Briefly Noted Fifteen-year-old Jane Austen is unimpressed with the kings and queens of England. More
Voices In Time 1963 | Los Angeles Lenny Bruce Loses the Crowd “Do you mind being called a sick comic?”More
Voices In Time 1913 | Los Angeles Charlie Chaplin Invents Himself The tramp picks up his bowler hat and cane for the first time. More