This is an intentional mess: comedy isn’t Monty Python or David Letterman ad infinitum; there is a vibrant, active, and lively culture at work all around the world, and the aim of publishing this chapbook is to act as an aggregating agent for that. There is plenty to see in Canada and Australia — and the cautionary tale of any sort of overtly critical or light-handed perspective is constantly on our minds, too; and for comedians, let me say: this is about making the feeling of standing at the back of the club watching comics go up all the richer, wider, and fuller — but the path we’ve chosen is both deliberate and only the very beginning: things will change with the next, and the next, and the next.
1. Comedy in Pakistan.
2. Werner Finck and Anti-Nazi Jokes.
3. The Stand-Up Journal/Year One.
4. Mr. Mayor. (Iceland.)
5. More Werner Finck.
6. Guillermo Zuluaga Montecristo (Colombia.)
7. José Vasconcelos. (Brazil.)
8. South Africa: Riaad Moosa, a South African morning comedy show, Don Packett.
9. The Bob Hope Joke Archive, 85,000 pages long.
10. Thief, thief, thief. (Italy.)
11. Comedy 4 Kids.
12. Secret Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Saudi Arabia.
13. Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please.
