Laughter Still Is the Best Medicine: Our Most Hilarious Jokes, Gags, and Cartoons

More than 1,000 jokes, quotes, anecdotes, and cartoons from Reader’s digest magazine–guaranteed to put laughter in your day. This hilarious collection offers up some of the funniest moments that get us through our day, in the form of jokes, gags and cartoons that will have readers laughing out loud.

Editors have mined the Reader’s Digest archives to bring readers Laughter the Best Medicine, All-Time Faves, a collection of the most hilarious jokes and anecdotes we’ve come across over the years. As you turn the pages of our newest collection, you’ll realize once again that laughter is always the best medicine.

Did you hear the one about the hitchhiker who never got anywhere? He’d get up early to avoid traffic. –Chuck Welch, Houston, TX

When my husband was a home builder, his thumb ended up on the business end of a sledgehammer, and our three-year-old daughter, Kiana, was eager to tell the entire world. When her caregiver asked how the accident had happened, Kiana shook her head sadly and said, You know, sometimes at work, my daddy just gets hammered.

–Stasia Uhlmann, Rocky Mountain House, Canada

After one of my students acted up, I took him to our school psychiatrist, who asked if he had ADHD. No, said the boy. I just have a normal TV. -Matthew Hughes, Fort Collins, CO

I’ve been told that when you meet the right person, you know immediately. How come when you meet the wrong person, it takes a year and a half? –Comedian Phil Hanley