Creme de la Femme : The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor

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	Creme de la Femme : The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor
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Ever hear yourself laughing in a movie theater when no one else finds the line even remotely funny? Creme de la Femme, a compendium of cynical, light-hearted, or downright birdbrained doggerel, riffs, essays, and stories, proves once again that humor is idiosyncratic. Contributors invited to flex their comic muscles include American politicos and writers Gloria Steinem and Anna Quindlen, comedian Joan Rivers, and cartoonists Roz Chast and Lynda Barry. Certain selections cause fluttering eyelids, but others win laughs or true guffaws. Some veer between categories, such as Paula Poundstone's strictures for producing the Oscars: "... everyone will wear usher uniforms and we'll put the money saved in gowns into low-income housing." No big hair to compensate for the gowns, she adds sternly, and no squinting at teleprompters to read off immortal lines like, "It's nice to be here." Breakups, predictable sex-role foibles, pregnancy, PMS, and politics are well worked over.