Pass the Port-After Dinner Stories of the Famous.
 
 
PASS THE PORT is the first volume of amusing after-dinner stories from famous people in public life. Imagine having 400 of the wittiest after-dinner speakers relate to you their most amusing tales: actual happenings from their lives in peace and war, remarks they overheard in the corridors of power, stories they listened to and enjoyed at dinners they attended. What an evening you would have!
 
PASS THE PORT has been in circulation for twenty years now, and the stories have been retold at countless dinner parties, and on the radio and TV. PASS THE PORT has become the standard reference work on after-dinner humour and for this reason there is a useful index at the back which helps you to find stories about barristers and betting, cowboys and fantasy, golf and passing the buck. Rank seems irrelevant in humour, so with some exceptions, due to updating, the contributions have been printed in alphabetical order by author. In this way you may find an archbishop rub shoulders with a football star, or a comedian take precedence over a judge.
 
The editor and publisher has been reluctant to appoint himself the judge or censor of his betters. You do not criticise the guest of honour at your feast. What is funny must be a matter of individual taste.
If the reader is offended by any of the stories, let him imagine he heard it told by its exalted author at the end of a convivial evening, when his critical faculties were mellowed by good fellowship.
 
If you enjoy PASS THE PORT, you will not want to miss the second volume, PASS THE PORT AGAIN.