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By Andrew Martin
Overlook, 510 pages, $27.95
There are days so bleak they call for humor, and 5,000 funny remarks appear in this volume. Neatly organized to address particular needs (an editor might find comfort in Moliere’s assessment that grammar “can govern even kings”), this compendium reflects a certain humor that is occasionally questionable but always interesting. Such as Ted Turner’s observation: “Life is like a B movie. You don’t want to leave in the middle of it, but you don’t want to see it again.”