Insults & Comebacks for All Occasions

by Knock Knock

Librarian note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.

There's a time and a place for saying what's really on your mind, and Insults & Comebacks for All Occasions provides verbatim lines for dishing it out with wit and verve. Armed with barbs targeting everything from looks to age to intelligence to character, you'll always be prepared with an appropriate or completely inappropriate put-down or comeback. With the help of this pocket-sized prompter, your reputation will soon precede you.

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor

112 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2008

About the author

Knock Knock is an independent maker of clever gifts, books, and whatever else they can think up. Their mission is to bring humor, creativity, and smarts to everyday life. Knock Knock’s crackerjack in-house team creates products and develops books from the ground up—as well as collaborating with outside authors, bloggers, and other creative types. Whether producing sticky notes or a volume of thoroughly researched nonfiction, Knock Knock happily dispenses irreverence, wordplay, and wit from its sunny perch in Venice, California, to folks around the globe.

Say something more with #knockknockstuff, and satisfy all your witty needs at knockknockstuff.com.

Reviews

[Hákon Gunnarsson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of the time I try not to insult people, but I do have a certain fondness for reading books of this kind, because insults can be witty. Sometimes, when they are done right, they can even be really funny. I don’t think I laughed once while reading this one.

Here are a few samples from the Classics section of Counter Attacks:

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Talk to the hand.

Bring it on!

Seriously. This isn’t funny. It’s not witty. For most parts it’s just a waste of time. Only occasionally does it reach anything that could be called witty, and that is so rare that I will not be reading this again for those few jokes.

[Elle · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were some good insults here and there, but there were a lot that were so unoriginal that they would insult the person attempting to use them.
However, the last section was interesting. It was full of celebrities dissing each other.

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

My girlfriend gave me this book as a gag gift for my birthday a few months ago and I got a huge kick out of it. I read the whole thing in one sitting while waiting for the football game to come on and laughed a lot more then I was expecting. It's light hearted, sarcastic as fuck, and full of really funny little ancedotes. This is one of those books that was written for a laugh and I doubt was taken very seriously. Some of the jokes in here fall flat, naturally, but some of them were pretty damn funny and a lot more clever then I originally gave it credit for. And I loved all the introductions and little paragraphs pertaining to the history of insulting people, those were great touches and were genuinely biting, sarcastic, wry, and humorous. Plus the final chapter, of documented insults from celebrities was a great touch. This is a very quick and pretty fun, and funny, read that got plenty of solid chuckles from me. My girlfriend knows me so well.

[Sally Begbie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I found this book on the side of the road yesterday. I thought it would be funny, but it's just aggressive and hateful.
I'll probably chuck it out my car window this afternoon and mybe someone else will pick it up.

[Delanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book isn't funny it's just offensive. For one thing it makes fun of therapy and people with D.I.D. which some people get because of extreme abuse they suffered as a child. Not cool.

[Muriel]

DNF @34% Was this supposed to be funny? Because it wasn’t. It was cruel and disgusting.

[Blake Frederick · Rating 2 out of 5]

"You'd make a great politician."

[Seaniqa C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insult and Comebacks

This book was half bad, but wasn’t really half good. It was pretty funny, with a few good lines. I honestly enjoyed the “famous lip” section the most. It’s surprising what some of the most famous people in our culture say. I honestly couldn’t expect anything better from a book of this nature! I read this because I had nothing better to do, but I really think it was worth the 30 minutes!
I thought it was a good job for an insult book, you really can’t expect that much from what it is but it isn’t bad! It’s pretty funny and if you’ve got 30 minutes to murder, this would probably be the best way to slaughter it! Not a bad book! It looks like just a cheesy, just bad joke book but it’s pretty clever, and I enjoyed it!

[David Edmonds · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK, I'm going to admit that this book was simply purchased on a whim with no other basis than the silliness of it. The book is put together very attractively (it looks like an older book, with no dust jacket and the name foil stamped directly onto the front board in a retro font) but, really, the matter is very subjective. It is exactly what the title says it is, a collection of insults to use in everyday conversation and some are funny and some are not, and the whole thing written entirely tongue in cheek. I can't really recommend this to anybody, except people who like some good sarcasm, and even then only thinly recommended.

[أبو فاطمة 14 · Rating 1 out of 5]

O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames. Wretched is the name of disobedience after [one's] faith. And whoever does not repent - then it is those who are the wrongdoers.
Translation from Holy Quran. 49:11

[Nick Arkesteyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book! Memorize 10 a week and use them regularly. This book was the perfect tool to help me dominate my team at work and always have a better answer. This will ensure you remain at the top of the social hierarchy...At least in conversation. Remember, every interaction with someone else is a battle for status!

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found these two at Urban Outfitters of all places. I purchased them as humorous gift and never gave them out.

Each of them contain a few good lines, however, I would generalize them as "bathroom readin." For extra fun read them together.

[Jesse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely worth the read. There are some major gems to be had from this tiny tome.

[Mohammed Algarawi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some are lame, and some are just horrible.

A nice quick read.

[Mashrur Al Huda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome