1000 Years of Laughter

This collection is amazing. It isn't always funny because in a thousand  years standards of humor have changed drastically and topical puns from  even a hundred years ago have aged badly. But when it is funny, it's  fantastic. David Timson's selections are masterful, including everyone  from Dickens to Wodehouse and Parker. The cast brings them fully to  life, handling even the pauses and over accenting of syllables it takes  to make some puns work, and switching accents from Twain's frontier  English to Wodehouse's British. With selections from children's  literature (THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS), wonderful nonsense (ALICE IN  WONDERLAND), and satire, this anthology spans Anglo-American  civilization, offering something for everyone.