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''Truly Tasteless Jokes'' is a book of off-color humor by Ashton Applewhite, first published in 1982 under the pen name "Blanche Knott." The book was a cultural phenomenon and spawned dozens of sequels, including best-sellers ''Truly Tasteless Jokes Two'' (1983) and ''Truly Tasteless Jokes Three'' (1984), and a stand-up comedy special. ==Background== Applewhite moved to New York City in 1977 to work for St. Martin's Press, where she learned numerous offensive jokes, which her boss encouraged her to write down. In a 2011 article in ''Harper's Magazine'', Applewhite wrote that her collection of quickly grew, and she would ask her coworkers and friends if they knew any jokes. Frustrated over her $8,500 annual salary as a lowly assistant, she decided to try to compile a book of the jokes. Applewhite asked a colleague to be her book agent, but their attempts to have the book published resulted in strong rejections; Applewhite recalled that her agent was told by Dell Publishing's paperback imprint that "We can't publish this here. I'm not even sure we can ''Xerox'' it."〔 Marilyn Abraham, an editor at Random House imprint Ballantine Books, decided to publish it. The original title was one of Applewhite's favorite jokes, ''What’s the Difference Between Garbage and a Girl from New Jersey?'' (punchline: garbage gets picked up); however, the marketing director responded that she did not get it and wanted to know what the book was about. Applewhite responded, "It’s a book of tasteless jokes," which the marketing director liked.〔 == Summary == Applewhite organized her joke collection into "timeless categories" including Helen Keller ("How did Helen Keller burn her fingers? Reading the waffle iron"), dead baby, Jewish, WASP, black, Polish, homosexual, and handicapped.〔 The book's jokes were typically a few lines or paragraphs in length. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Truly Tasteless Jokes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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