Reddit reviews The Mammoth Book of Dirty, Sick, X-Rated and Politically Incorrect Jokes: The Ultimate Collection of X-Rated Gags

Favorite stand alone: "The Man Who Folded himself" (Because it's damned good sci fi, (time travel), he does many things I would, and the masturbation orgies are hot)


Favorite Series: Ethshar (Damned good fiction, each book can work as a stand alone more or less, I first read "The Blood of A Dragon", didn't even know it was part of a series until years later. Such a good book I bought them all, turned out to be one of the worst in the series comparatively. He writes simply but well, the stories are pretty unique, the many types of magic interesting. )


Non Fiction: "The Mammoth Book of Dirty Jokes". (It's simply the biggest and best joke book I've ever read, still haven't finished, I read a few pages whenever really bored and while in between fiction books/series)


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EDIT: Accidentally put the link to "The Mammoth book of jokes" instead of dirty jokes, corrected it.

This post is a little longer than the others, but it worked for me.

In middle school, I was tall, fat, weird, read too much, and a pretty big dickhead. Most of this was because I was teased for reading so much, so I lashed out. Fast forward a year, and I'm in freshman year of high school. I spent the first month hanging out with my brother's friends, because our mom told him he had to let me hang out with him. It was bad. I knew I wasn't going to be the best looking guy, or the strongest, or the most charismatic. So I decided that I would try to be funny.

I bought the Adults Only Joke Book and the Mammoth Book of Dirty, Sick, X Rated, and Politically Incorrect Jokes, and read them both cover to cover. I would circle the jokes I laughed at, and then tell them to my brother and parents. After a week of bringing them to school, people started asking me to tell them some of the jokes. I did, and quickly learned why comedians talk about timing so much. Not only that, but I learned what made certain people laugh, and what could get almost anyone to laugh. By doing so, I learned a lot about what makes people laugh in jokes.

The next step was to watch stand up specials. I have a very good memory, so I would spend my weekends watching Comedy Central late night and their Friday Night Standup, and everyone I found funny, I would commit their acts to memory and perform them for people. Ron White, Mitch Hedberg, Chris Rock, and especially Christopher Titus all had their acts committed to my memory. I started performing them at my school, and it taught me even more about how to not only tell a joke, but tell a story too. When to pause, when to enunciate, when to repeat a point for emphasis.

By the end of my freshman year, I had dozens of jokes memorized and had a couple two or three minute canned bits that I could tell fairly well. While I was still too tall, read too much, and weird zs hell, I could make people laugh. And when you can make people laugh, they can overlook a lot of weird stuff. Ended up getting a girlfriend and making a lot of friends. Continued working on jokes and being personable, and now I can be the center of a party by being funny on almost any topic.

Tl;Dr: spent my freshman year learning how to be funny, behooved me greatly in my life since.