American Way of Laughing Author:Helen Weiss A collection of American humor by and about many well-known and a few not-so-well-known American writers and characters, including Ben Franklin, Davy Crockett, Josh Billings, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Finlay P. Dunne, Will Rogers, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, E.B. White, Art Buchwald, Woody Allen, the ever popular Anonymous, and many others.