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Away with words : an irreverent tour through the world of pun competitions / Joe Berkowitz.

by Berkowitz, Joe, 1980-

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Harper Perennial, 2017.

Puns and punning -- Competitions.

9780062495600 (pbk.)

272 pages ; 21 cm

If there's a pun in the first act -- Welcome to the punderdome -- The place beyond the puns -- Spitting the Lotto ticket -- The punning linguists -- Games and shows -- All the puns that are fit to print -- @ the joke of midnight -- The cauliflower's cumin from inside the house -- The graffiti castle -- Mutually assured pun destruction -- Punniest of show -- Punslingers.

"Reporter Joe Berkowitz investigates the bizarre and hilarious world of pun competitions where the kinds of jokes we learn to repress through social conditioning are aired out in public and applauded. As someone who is terminally self-conscious, Joe is awed and jealous of these people who confidently kill with the most maligned form of humor. In this immersive ride into the subversive world of pun competitions, we meet punsters weird and wonderful. Puns may show up in life in subtle ways sometimes, but once you start thinking in puns you discover they're everywhere. With his unlikely band of punster brothers, he heads to Austin to compete in the World Championship. Of course, in befriending these comic misfits he also ended up learning that when you embrace puns you become a more authentic version of yourself. Joe Berkowitz is an editor and staff writer for the American business magazine FastCompany.com covering entertainment and pop culture. He lives in Brooklyn."--Provided by publisher.

American wit and humor.

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