Laughing Matters: Selected Columns by Humorist Pam Robbins

By Pam Robbins

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966735706
• ISBN13: 9780966735703
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Global Business Perspectives
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Christmas Gift

Not only have I read this book several times, I've also had the opportunity to meet Pam Robbins in person, and she's NOT as funny as she thinks she is....she's FUNNIER! This collection of columns is bound to strike a familiar chord with everyone who reads it. My particular favorite is the column about her gall bladder operation...just as long as they didn't remove her funny bone! I'm giving this as a Christmas gift to all of my friends!

These columns remind us to laugh at ourselves every day.

In this book, Pam Robbins takes a look at our everyday foibles and makes them something to laugh about. For example, in one particularly funny column she writes about the antics of a law-abiding woman who is caught driving behind a state trooper on her way to work, and how her guilt reflex causes her to make a clown of herself! Each story offers something to laugh about and something to think about. And ... it makes for a great gift book. What more could you ask?

life in a human form

very true. Humor is the best thing that we invented. The book is easy reading and the laughs are many.

"Laughing Matters" reminds us that laughing matters.

For more than 20 years, Pam Robbins has been telling readers in Western Massachusetts that when all else fails, as it frequently does, laughing matters. She takes on some of the most important issues of the day and wrestles them to the ground -- state police, low-fat holidays, relatives, what to do when you win the lottery (my personal favorite), surviving major surgery. She's not knee-slapping, roll-in-the-aisle funny; she's sneak up on your funnybone from behind funny; call up your best friends and read it to them over the telephone funny, get you through the day funny. All I can say is, Look out world, here comes Pam Robbins!!!

This is a very funny book - every page made me laugh!

I think "Laughing Matters: Selected Columns by Humorist Pam Robbins" is one of the funniest humor books I have ever read. It is a collection of columns, each about one of the writer's simple experiences. What made it so funny? They were all experiences that I could relate to...things that had also happened to me. Robbins has a way of pointing out how funny these everyday things are - I love her take on life. My favorite in the collection was about how she would spend winnings from the lottery (my favorite line: "Give 10 minutes notice, then clear out my desk and throw its contents into the trash can; go home to count my money and watch TV round the clock." I was also tickled by the ones about keeping state troopers entertained; buying a package of rags; answering machine mishaps, and borrowed siblings. I liked this book so much, I bought copies of it for my friends and relatives for Christmas. Who can't use a few laughs??