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The New York City Bartender’s Joke Book

Author: Jimmy Pritchard
Publication date: 2002
Genre: Humour 

About the Work

More than 400 jokes collected by the author during his career tending bars in New York.


Challenges in Canada

2004—A library patron complained to the Saskatoon Public Library about this book length collection of jokes that the author had heard while working in bars.

Objection—The complainant said that the jokes were in poor taste and promoted negative attitudes toward women and ethnic minorities.

Update—The library’s Challenged Materials Committee later agreed that the book was “racist, sexist, and demeaning to women and citizens of many countries.” The book also failed to meet the library’s collection development standards. The committee withdrew the book from circulation.


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