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Last Laughs: Cartoons about Aging, Retirement…and the Great Beyond
Edited by Mort Gerberg
#UB9472
Hardcover, 193 pages; 2007
$18.36
An angel, greeting an elderly man at the pearly gates, hands him a small object, saying, "…and look what I have for you. It's your short-term memory." Leave it to the gifted cartoonists of the New Yorker to turn death into a laughing matter! Last Laughs pokes fun at all of life's darkest inevitabilities. A businessman tells a senior employee, "We have no mandatory retirement age, Dave, but under certain conditions we tend to encourage people to die." A skinny old man in his boxer shorts confronts the doctor who's examining him with, "You're going to keep on looking until you find something—aren't you?" This sharp-witted collection of cartoons—from the likes of George Booth, Roz Chast, and Leo Cullum— injects a welcome dose of humor into the dreary fact that we're all getting older every day.
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