Entertainment category: 96258 books
Cheer Up Love
Adventures in depression with the Crab of Hate
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
'DEEPLY HONEST, SURPRISINGLY HILARIOUS AND UPLIFTING' The Pool 'HEART-WARMING: UNMISSABLE' Damian Barr, Metro
Susan Calman is a well-known comedian and writer who has appeared on countless radio and television programmes from The News Quiz and Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4, presented Armchair...
by Dave Itzkoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a compelling portrait of one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning...
Street Gang
The Complete History of Sesame Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
**Coming soon as a documentary from Focus Films, The New York Times bestselling account of the story behind one of the most influential, durable, and beloved shows in the history of television: Sesame Street.
“Davis tracks down every Sesame anecdote and every Sesame personality in his book...
Bonkers
My Life in Laughs
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders - the hilarious, touching life story of the iconic comedian and national treasure
Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or...
Gasping for Airtime
Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2004
When 21-year-old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling, and exciting years of...
Life of the Party
Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
A collection of outrageous stories by the standup comic, TV host, and inspiration for the movie National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Bert Kreischer doesn't know how to say "no." If he did, he wouldn't have gotten himself mixed up with a group of Russian mobsters on a class trip to Moscow,...
Madcap May
Mistress of Myth, Men, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
May Yohe was a popular entertainer from humble American origins who married and then abandoned a wealthy English Lord who owned the fabled Hope diamond--one of the most valuable objects in the world and now exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. May was a romantic who had numerous...
Ava Gardner
"Love Is Nothing"
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
"The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent."—Liz Smith
She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols. She was the temptress who drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide and haunted him to the end of his life. Ernest...
The Good Neighbor
The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Fred Rogers (19282003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and...
by Ellen DeGeneres
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Ellen DeGeneres's winning, upbeat candor has made her show one of the most popular, resilient, and honored daytime shows on the air, and her life makes for great (and very funny) reading. Relatable, her first stand-up special in 15 years, airs on Netflix beginning December 18, 2018.
"I've...
This Time Together
Laughter and Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett—funny, irreverent, and irresistible.
Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in...
My Booky Wook
A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“A child’s garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better than anyone since Jim Carroll. With the flick of his enviable pen, he can summarize childhood thus: ‘My very first utterance...
by Carrie Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars,...
by Chelsea Handler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In these personal essays, the hilarious comedian and Chelsea Lately host reflects on family, love life, and the absurdities of adulthood with "cheeky candor" and signature wit (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent...