Pretty Good Jokes

Fulfilling the flood of requests from enthused listeners, Pretty Good Jokes combines all the jokes from A Prairie Home Companion's first four joke shows (1996-1999). It is an entertaining mix of knock-knocks, one-liners, North Dakota, religious, animal, bar, and light bulb jokes, those famous "yo mama" insults and much more. This live recording features guests Roy Blount, Jr. and Paula Poundstone. Pretty Good Jokes is for A Prairie Home Companion fans and all fans unaffected good humor.

Library Journal

The annual "Pretty Good Joke" show on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion is an institution of sorts, a rapid-fire dissemination of one-liners, knock-knock jokes, light bulb jokes, and more, dispensed by guest stars like Roy Blount and Paula Poundstone, as well as ordinary citizens. This collection comprises jokes from several shows, with host Keillor--who's a decent joke teller himself--tying it all together. There's nothing brilliant here, but it is, as promised, pretty good. There is an understandably Midwestern center of gravity to this gathering: the jokes "of questionable taste" turn out to be only mildly salacious, and two fundamental humor sources--Jews and blacks--are pretty much absent. For public library humor collections, especially where Keillor is popular.--Norman Oder, "Library Journal" Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

First with his performances on Minnesota Public Radio's Prairie Home Companion and later in his books, Garrison Keillor has become a symbol of the small-town Midwest -- its absurdities, its stoutness, and its warmth. His popular, funny stories set in Lake Wobegon manage to evoke nostalgia for a town that never existed.