一千零一条笑话集 1001 One-Liners

基本信息

Publisher：Ad Lib Publishers Ltd

Publication date：14 Sept. 2023

Language：English

Print length：136 pages

ISBN-10：1802471219

ISBN-13：978-1802471212

Item weight：1.05 kg

Dimensions：12.7 x 1.02 x 19.56 cm

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书籍简介

几个世纪以来，简短精悍的笑话一直广受欢迎。事实上，世界上现存古老的笑话集《菲洛杰洛斯》（Philogelos）是用古希腊语写成的，其中就收录了一个经典的医生笑话：

病人：“医生！我醒来时头晕目眩。半小时后就感觉好多了。”

医生：“那你再等半小时再醒来吧。”

与此同时，在罗马，人们为各种场合都准备了笑话，从元老院演说和盛大宴会到把教徒扔进狮子笼。西塞罗的脱口秀演出是城里热门的演出。

莎士比亚经常在他的喜剧中穿插妙语连珠的段子，而中世纪的弄臣则用精辟的俏皮话逗乐宫廷，他们深知，如果笑话弄巧成拙，冒犯了君主，那么他们的下一个观众可能就是刽子手了。“死在舞台上”在当时的喜剧演员眼中有着更为不祥的含义。

不难理解为什么如今的喜剧演员仍然钟爱单口笑话。它们朗朗上口，易于记忆，而且即使一个笑话反响平平，下一个也随时准备就绪，有望获得更好的反响。这里汇集了一些精彩的单口笑话——既有经典老梗，也有新晋佳作，从老爸式的冷笑话，到发人深省的思考，再到略显老套的双关语和机智的观察，涵盖了从家庭到鱼类、从金钱到音乐、从人际关系到宗教、从科技到旅行等各种主题。它们可以用来活跃商务会议的气氛，让疲惫不堪的与会者不再感到无聊；也可以用来活跃晚宴的气氛，避免谈话陷入关于电子表格的讨论；还可以用来缓解冗长的Zoom会议的沉闷；当然，也可以用来在婚礼上发表感人至深的致辞，甚至连蛋糕都做成了多层。

Short, quick-fire jokes have been popular for centuries. Indeed the world’s oldest surviving joke book, the Philogelos, which was written in Ancient Greek, contains this classic doctor joke:

Patient: “Doctor! When I wake up I’m all dizzy. Then after half an hour I feel fine.”

Doctor: “Well, wait half an hour before waking up.”

Meanwhile in Rome, they had a gag for every occasion, from senate orations and lavish feasts to throwing Christians to the lions. A Cicero stand-up gig was the hottest ticket in town.

Shakespeare readily slipped one-liners into his comedies, while medieval jesters used pithy quips to amuse the royal court, well aware that if the joke backfired and somehow offended the monarch, their next audience might be with the executioner. “Dying on stage” carried a more sinister meaning for comedians in those days.

It’s not hard to see why one-liners remain in vogue with today’s comedians. They are easy to remember, quick to deliver and if one gag dies on its feet, the next is waiting in the wings, hopefully to a better reception. Here is a compilation of the best one-liners around – a heady mix of old and new favourites, Dad jokes, thoughtful musings, corny puns and witty observations, covering a vast range of topics from Families to Fish, Money to Music, Relationships to Religion and Technology to Travel. They can be used to brighten up business conferences where the delegates are as tired as the sandwiches; dinner parties where the conversation is threatening to slide into a discussion about spreadsheets; seemingly interminable Zoom calls; and, of course, speeches at weddings that are so emotional that even the cake is in tiers.

作者简介

杰夫·蒂博尔斯是畅销书《笑话大全》和《荤段子大全》的作者，此外他还著有《商业失误》和《法律失误》等多部作品。他曾是一名记者和新闻官，现在是一名全职作家，爱好包括运动、美食、美酒和逃避家务。他和妻子女儿们居住在英国诺丁汉。

Geoff Tibballs is the author of the bestselling Mammoth Book of Jokes and The Mammoth Book of Dirty Jokes as well as many other books including Business Blunders and Legal Blunders. A former journalist and press officer, he is now a full-time writer who lists his hobbies as sport, eating, drinking, and avoiding housework. He lives in Nottingham, England, with his wife and daughters.