M. Ted -

My standup comic routines are so stilted, and pathetic, they resemble locomotar-ataxia ....it is so bad I used to whistel at crossings.

Don't ask...I won't tell

Seriously, if you are looking for the "original" good-stuff, hit the used book sellers and find the volumes pre-1940's...they fall under names like, Thesaurus of Humor or 10,000 Jokes and Toasts....the humor is AWFUL!!!!By the age of 18 I had a dozen or more of the volumes....I couldn't and I still can't do a decent routine.

Generally, they have sections and sub-sections like:

Human Beings
Existence
Life
Birth
Stork
Age
Birthday
Second Childhood
Death
Suicide
Undertake
Funeral
Cemetery
Ghost
Rincarnation
Widow
Mourning
Last Will and Testament
Insurance

And it goes on and On and ON...for a thousand plus pages in Five Hundred catagories in each volume.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle