IRANIC: There's nothing funny about the situation in Iran, but that hasn't stopped a Rockaway Park author, Richard Grayson, from putting together a paperback of puns, published this week, called "The Iran Joke Book." Samples: "How do Iranians phone each other?" "Persian to Persian." "How do Iranian clergymen make a decision?" "They mullah it over.".
Daily News (New York)
Tuesday, June 26, 1979
Page 5
BABY RAVE: While Steve Martin's "Cruel Shoes" is going through the roof in book sales, let me point out another really funny book of short stories published at the same time, titled "With Hitler in New York," These tales by Richard Grayson are populated by Farrah Fawcett-Major, Sarah Lawrence of Arabia, Abe Lincoln and Hitler, to name a few.
I read Richard's book after the 27-year-old author wrote me a letter. "I live with my parents in Brooklyn. We are very poor, but we are honest and good and gossip-minded people." How could I resist?
