The format featured brief humorous essays, short satires, cartoons and light verse.
"Louder and Funnier" featured one-liners, such as, "Then there is the rich Texan who has a different dentist for every tooth.
Cartoonists included Bob Barnes, Irwin Caplan, Chon Day, Leo Garel, Jerry Marcus, Don Orehek, Virgil Partch, Bob Schroeter, Eli Stein, George Wolfe and Pete Wyma.
Cartoonist Lee Lorenz described cartoonists making rounds and making a sale to 1000 Jokes: A sister Dell publication was For Laughing Out Loud, and Dell revived the Ballyhoo title in the early 1950s.
Both employed the 1000 Jokes format of mixing cartoons with short humorous essays.