SchadenFreezers!: 56 Cruel Jokes in 12 Fun Flavors by Jason Kreher, Matt Moore
My rating: 5/5 cats
another review in which i toe the line of what is “too much” content to share. but with books like these, i always feel justified because a) there’s a damn tumblr* where you can see these things for yourselves without buying the book (and it’s a particularly good tumblr in terms of interactivity and eye-candy) and b) most of you people are going to flip through this in a bookstore while you wait for your movie to start or the downpour to let up without shelling out the ca$h for it. since i am the one who shells out the ca$h for these books, i feel perfectly entitled to share my favorites. there are 56 of these, and i have left many horrifying/hilarious examples outta the review, selecting a mere 17. but you do have to see some of these, for sure.
so, this is a super-high-concept humor book. it’s playing off of those popsicles with the corny jokes printed on their sticks, where you had to eat the whole popsicle (risking brain freeze in your haste to discover how DO you stop a bull from charging??**) to get to the punch line. but with these, the “punch lines” are more sobering, more honest, more bleak.
and it’s just impressive how much time and care was put into these—the composition, the color contrasts, the weirdass idea in the first place…
i really love this idea, especially when the answers are absurd or anticlimactic
and occasionally chilling (beyond the brainfreeze)
but nooooo—back to laffter!
and now back to sad. it’s a roller coaster.
definitely a fun book, if you have a dark streak or you want to enjoy jokes without getting diabetes.
* which includes “jokes deemed too offensive to publish” (i’ll wait for you to come back)
** take away his credit cards!!!!!
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