Voices In Time Comedy 1748 | Bath Low and Unbecoming Philip Dormer Stanhope recommends to his son to never laugh, ever.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1882 | San Francisco The Reply Churlish Ambrose Bierce is not amused with Oscar Wilde.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1913 | Los Angeles Charlie Chaplin Invents Himself The tramp picks up his bowler hat and cane for the first time. More
Voices In Time Comedy 1225 | France Goodbye to All That A wife takes a priest as her lover and hides him in an unfortunate place.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1865 | London A German Comedy Is Like a German Sentence George Eliot pays homage the wittiest nation on the continent. More
Voices In Time Comedy 1830 | Eafield Non-Apology A wild and drunken night leaves Charles Lamb worse for wear but unapologetic about his actions.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1688 | France Character Study A man of sense should learn to jest gracefully and to not be obscene.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1921 | Baltimore H.L. Mencken on Balder and Dash A newspaperman takes down the enemy: “He writes the worst English I have ever encountered.”More
Voices In Time Comedy 1947 | Washington, D.C. New Hires President Harry Truman appoints a Secretary of Semantics.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1791 | Steventon Briefly Noted Fifteen-year-old Jane Austen is unimpressed with the kings and queens of England. More
Voices In Time Comedy c. 1592 | Padua Wordplay William Shakespeare gives a lesson in taming a shrew. More
Voices In Time Comedy c. 1555 | Paris Merry Pranksters A prank-war between a nobleman and the court fool escalates out of control. More
Voices In Time Comedy 1963 | Los Angeles Lenny Bruce Loses the Crowd “Do you mind being called a sick comic?”More
Voices In Time Comedy 300 | Greece Very Old Jokes Two numbskulls trade insults in Ancient Greece.More