The Truly Tasteless Jokes Story

If you are of a certain age — which is to say if you are old enough to remember when people told jokes, rather than had “funny” Twitter feeds — part of your childhood was probably spent devouring Blanche Knott’s Truly Tasteless series. (I’m pretty sure that’s where I first learned the “pull on my penis” joke.) Anyway, you’ll want to pick up the new Harper’s: Ashton Applewhite, who was in fact “Blanche Knott,” tells her story.